Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:22:07 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted |
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:17:18AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > I think we should aim to have as many subsystems ready to go as possible - > ideally all of them. Right now we can potentially run userspace before > AIO, posix-timers, message-queues, BIO, networking, etc are ready to run. > > It looks to be pretty easy to fix... > > > As for that example, I'd love to see specifics - which driver triggers > > hotplug? Presumably it happens from an initcall, so we also have something > > fishy here... > > I don't know in this case - but firmware loading from a statically-linked > driver is a legit thing to do.
Umm... statically linked driver that might want firmware shouldn't precede the subsystems unless something is seriously wrong with priorities...
IOW, I still wonder what's really going on - pipes are fs_initcall() and any hardware stuff ought to be simple module_init(). So something fishy is going on, regardless of anything else. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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