Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:33:00 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted |
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In-Reply-To: <20061211005557.04643a75.akpm@osdl.org>
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:55:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs > > is not mounted. > > That's pretty lame. It means that pipes just won't work, so people who are > using pipes in their initramfs setups will just get mysterious failures > running userspace on a crippled kernel.
I know, I just wanted to keep the issue alive. :)
> I think the bug really is the running of populate_rootfs() before running > the initcalls, in init/main.c:init(). It's just more sensible to start > running userspace after the initcalls have been run. Statically-linked > drivers which want to load firmware files will lose. To fix that we'd need > a new callback. It could be with a new linker section or perhaps simply a > notifier chain.
Why not create a new initcall category for things that must run before early userspace?
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