Bug#931507: kernel-wedge: HDA sound board detection takes 60s in d-i

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings, le dim. 07 juil. 2019 17:36:03 +0100, a ecrit:
> On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 17:16 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > Ben Hutchings, le dim. 07 juil. 2019 13:35:20 +0100, a ecrit:
> > > i915 belongs in fb-modules.  I'm not sure that sound-modules should
> > > depend on it, as it's not a hard dependency.
> > 
> > It is not a hard-hard dependency for the HDA driver, but without it
> > there is a 60s delay for the detection of HDA-based devices...
> 
> I think that could (and should) be avoided by only waiting if
> request_module() succeeds.

Ah, request_modules() is synchronous, I then wonder what this is waiting
for, actually.

> And I think all installer configurations that include sound-modules
> also include fb-modules already.

Probably indeed, but I don't find i915.ko in fb-modules.

Samuel