Pozsar Balazs wrote:
> 
> Well, that's really wierd, It Should Work(tm) :)
> Did you apply both patches (Rusty's + mine), or only the latter?
> 

I hadn't seen Rusty's patch on Debian's bts, until you mentioned
it. I have applied both patches now, and rebooted twice: By now
it worked. But that's what I thought before.

> Could you send me debug output please? The first time I met the problem, 
> I used a modprobe wrapper which dumped /proc/modules and modprobe 
> stdout/stderr to a temp file.
> 
If the problem comes back then I will do.

> I would like to also mention, that my patch leaves a very little time 
> window open, but that's only a problem if module unloading is also 
> happening: after parsing /proc/modules, but before actually loading the 
> module, it is possible that an rmmod unloads (starts to unload) a 
> dependant module. But this does not affect booting.
> 
> 

Are there several modprobe's running in parallel? Or does modprobe
return SUCCESS while the kernel is still busy "making the module
usable somehow"?


Regards

Harri

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