Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Feb 2006 12:44:28 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions |
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote: > > For example, say that you have more than just a couple of disks attached > to the system, but many of them are for non-critical stuff. You do not > necessarily want to wait for them all to spin up at all. You usually only > care about one of them - the root device.
Well yes, but I was suggesting that userspace be given the option - run insmod asynchronously if it's a problem.
It all does indicate that our single module_init(no args) interface is too coarse... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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