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SubjectRe: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun
On Mon, Jan 15, Andrew Walrond wrote:

> >/sbin/hotplug and /init are two very different and unrelated things.
>
> Well, of course. But looking at the thread provided by Jan, it seems the
> kernel might not be in any fit state to service the (userspace) hotplug
> infrastructure when it makes the calls (Ie can't create pipes yet).

Thats because noone really fixed the init call order. Its going back and
forth since /init was added in 2.6.6.
Ideally, there could be some /earlyinit that could prepare the
enviroment for hotplug calls.
Why do you need /sbin/hotplug anyway, just for firmware loading for a
non-modular kernel?
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