Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jul 2006 18:40:25 -0400 | From | Mark Huang <> | Subject | [PATCH] module_subsys: initialize earlier |
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Initialize module_subsys earlier (or at least earlier than devices) since it could be used very early in the boot process if kmod loads a module before the device initcalls. Otherwise, kmod will crash in kernel/module.c:mod_sysfs_setup() since the kset in module_subsys is not initialized yet.
I only noticed this problem because occasionally, kmod loads the modules for my SCSI and Ethernet adapters very early, during the boot process itself. I don't quite understand why it loads them sometimes and doesn't load them other times. Or who is telling kmod to do so. Can someone explain?
Please Cc: me on responses, thanks.
Signed-off-by: Mark Huang <mlhuang@cs.princeton.edu>
--- linux-2.6.18-rc2/kernel/params.c 2006-07-25 16:46:56.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.18-rc2.sysfs/kernel/params.c 2006-07-26 17:53:51.000000000 -0 400 @@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ static int __init param_sysfs_init(void)
return 0; } -__initcall(param_sysfs_init); +subsys_initcall(param_sysfs_init);
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