Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

From: Bryan O'Sullivan
Date: Wed Feb 22 2006 - 15:45:09 EST


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 07:48 -0800, Joel Becker wrote:

> Do you mean that you are using a distro (eg, RHEL4 or something)
> with a mainline kernel? We've seen something similar, and what we've
> determined is happening is that insmod is returning before the module is
> done initializing.

Yep, we've seen this with other SCSI drivers. Our solution was to add a
"sleep 15" after each modprobe in the initrd, since SCSI drivers often
take a while to pull their thumbs out.

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