[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Addressing complex dependencies and semantics (v2)

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 11:22:23AM +0300, Jani Nikula wrote:
> So I admit to being pretty clueless wrt the fine details of module
> loading, but I'm wondering if there could be any way of the module being
> loaded telling the kernel (via a call, not by returning from probe) to
> hold its horses for a while, and keep loading other modules. Sort of
> like deferred probe, but without the full cleanup-retry cycle. The call
> would return to the module later (not unlike deferred probe retries the
> probe), and you could try again whatever it was that made you realize
> you need to defer.

Nope, it doesn't work that way, sorry.

Nice try, just unwind your initialization properly :)

greg k-h