modprobe speakupmain hangs

[luke]

On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, Hynek Hanke wrote:

> However, I think the method you described is not guaranteed to work, 
> because in the time of the crash, modprobe is running a child process 
> and you would risk that this child process ends up being a zombie and 
> block the thing. I didn't test the exact behavior, but I wouldn't rely 
> on it. I agree that in other cases what you propose would be a much 
> cleaner solution.

Well, I did say that it wasn't tested with modprobe.:)

Luke