Bug#660803: Weird kmod softdep issue

[Stephen Kitt]

Hi Marco,

There's a weird bug filed against oss-compat (#660803), which derives from
one you filed a while back. I've been trying to figure out what's going on,
but I haven't been able to; I'm hoping you'll have some insight into things...

Basically, the old install directive

install snd-seq modprobe --ignore-install snd-seq $CMDLINE_OPTS && { modprobe --quiet snd-seq-midi ; modprobe --quiet snd-seq-oss ; : ; }

works fine, but the replacement softdep directive

softdep snd-seq post: snd-seq-midi snd-seq-oss

causes module_init to time out and fail to initialise the modules. Is there
something wrong with the softdep directive, or is it something else?

Incidentally, the fix for Debian is easy enough, since Debian kernels no
longer ship snd-seq-oss: I can just drop the snd-seq-oss line entirely... But
I'd like to understand what's at work here.

Thanks,

Stephen
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