Re: Runaway loop with the current git.

[Evgeniy Polyakov]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 04:57:40PM +0000, Alan Cox (alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> The userspace opens major 5 minor 1. The kernel has no driver mapped to
> that so the kernel asks user space to load a module of its choice for

It has. It really has it. It was not yet initialized though because,
because, because... Hmm, userspace code started and built-in kernel
subsystem was not yet initialized.

> major 5 minor 1. What user space does with that is and has always been a
> problem for user space.
> 
> User space is quite at liberty to go .. 5,1  and I have a serial console
> I want to load 8250_pci please.
> 
> What it must not do is try and re-open it again and again and again.

Heh, init is not allowed to write something to the console or any other
tty?

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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