Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: physmap and "request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1" | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:16:39 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:10 -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> > Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:49:03 +0100 > > > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:01 -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote: > > > I guess the question is which patch (if either) is more appealing. > > > > I definitely think we should initialise AF_UNIX sockets earlier. At > > least request_module() _can_ work then, if you want it to and you set up > > userspace accordingly. > > I'm not so sure, for example, what if AF_UNIX is built modular?
I believe that as long as you include it in your initrd, it'll get loaded on demand and all will be well. The first request_module() call will trigger a request_module(af_unix), which will succeed.
-- dwmw2
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