Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 26 Oct 2004 16:29:22 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: chicken/egg between pipefs and initramfs/hotplug |
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Thayne Harbaugh <tharbaugh@lnxi.com> wrote: > > It appears that linux/init/main.c:init() has a chicken/egg problem. > Apparently modprobe and other programs need a pipe and pipefs isn't > mounted until later on in do_basic_setup()/do_initcalls(). That means > that linux/fs/pipe.c:static struct vfsmount *pipe_mnt; isn't > initialized and blows up when it's derefernced in > linux/fs/pipe.c:get_pipe_inode().
That's a bit sad. Does this fix it?
--- 25/fs/pipe.c~a Tue Oct 26 16:28:44 2004 +++ 25-akpm/fs/pipe.c Tue Oct 26 16:28:52 2004 @@ -718,5 +718,5 @@ static void __exit exit_pipe_fs(void) mntput(pipe_mnt); } -module_init(init_pipe_fs) +fs_initcall(init_pipe_fs) module_exit(exit_pipe_fs) _ - 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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