From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Andrew MChuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 11:33:58 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1165883638.7260.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612110834520.12500@woody.osdl.org>
> So it makes perfect sense to say
>
> "you won't be getting any notification by anything built-in, until
> 'device_initcall' (which is the default module_init, of course)".
>
> which in the case of certain drivers obviously _does_ mean that they had
> better not try to use any early initcalls to load firmware.
And that will fix some other issues I think I've seen (a while ago, I
might have a memory mixup here) related to /sbin/hotplug being called
before /dev/null & /dev/zero are initialized (they are fs_initcall). At
least with that patch, it won't happen.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-12 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-11 8:27 [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 8:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:13 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:21 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 9:33 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:47 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:03 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:17 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:22 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:47 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 10:57 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-12-11 10:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-11 10:45 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 16:12 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 0:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2006-12-12 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12 2:17 ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-12-12 2:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11 10:52 ` [PATCH] get rid of ARCH_HAVE_XTIME_LOCK Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 13:50 ` [PATCH] Optimize calc_load() Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 19:04 ` [PATCH] constify pipe_buf_operations Eric Dumazet
2006-12-11 9:13 ` [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Al Viro
2006-12-11 9:40 ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-11 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 12:20 ` Michael Tokarev
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-11 9:33 Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 10:48 ` Olaf Hering
2006-12-11 10:52 ` Al Viro
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