physmap and "request_module: runaway loop modprobe net-pf-1"

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 23:10 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:49:03 +0100
> 
> > On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 22:01 -0600, Gordon Farquharson wrote:
> > > I guess the question is which patch (if either) is more appealing.
> > 
> > I definitely think we should initialise AF_UNIX sockets earlier. At
> > least request_module() _can_ work then, if you want it to and you set up
> > userspace accordingly.
> 
> I'm not so sure, for example, what if AF_UNIX is built modular?

I believe that as long as you include it in your initrd, it'll get
loaded on demand and all will be well. The first request_module() call
will trigger a request_module(af_unix), which will succeed.

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dwmw2