On 02/14/2012 10:37 AM, Johannes Berg wrote:

I'm not even sure they've done *anything* until now, so I'm not sure it
matters. I believe the behavioural change that prompted these changes
will actually make it easier to implement the delay in a matter that
covers both this and async loading, so you may well be safe, I haven't
really understood the full details of the change that prompted all this.

I do not think the changes have been merged into any distro yet, but I have 
gotten feedback converning udev timeouts from the rtlwifi drivers when booting. 
That is the reason I'm trying to get ahead of the curve now.

Larry