Hey,

On Fri, Sep 05, 2014 at 04:22:42PM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

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I don't get it.  This is a behavior userland already depends on for
boots.  What's there to agree or disagree?  This is just a fact that
we can't do this w/o disturbing some userlands in a major way.

I am just expressing my disbelief that somebody relies on module loading
being synchronous with probing. Out of curiosity, do you have any
pointers?

I've seen initrd scripts which depended on the behavior to wait for
storage devices over the years.  AFAIK, none of the modern distros
does it but this has been such a basic feature all along and it seems
highly unlikely to me that there's no userland remaining out there
depending on such behavior.  We do have a lot of different userlands,
many of them quite ad-hoc.

Thanks.

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tejun