Bug#660803: Weird kmod softdep issue

[Sven Joachim]

On 2013-07-22 22:58 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:

> 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.

It's a kernel problem that has been fixed in Linux 3.11-rc2 and 3.10.3
("ALSA: seq-oss: Initialize MIDI clients asynchronously").

Cheers,
       Sven