Re: insmoding aha152x never returns in 2.3.33

Giacomo Catenazzi (cate@student.ethz.ch)
Mon, 20 Dec 1999 18:28:10 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Tim Waugh wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
>
> > I think there are also a bug in modutils caused by bugs in kernel.
> > modutils must fail without stop virtual console (as 'mount/kmod' do).
>
> There is no modutils bug here. The task is in uninterruptible sleep, so
> there's nothing that modutils can do about it.

Why 'mount' with kmod fails loading the imm module without go to an
uninterruptible sleep, but insmod do it?

giacomo

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