Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 15, Andrew Walrond wrote:
>>
>>> To solve this, I deleted /sbin/hotplug from the initramfs archive and 
>>> modified /init to reinstate it once it gets control. This works fine, 
>>> but seems inelegant. Is there a better solution? Should sbin/hotplug 
>>> be called at all before the kernel has passed control to /init?
>>
>> Yes, it should be called.
> 
> Ok
> 
>> /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).
> 
> The kernel wouldn't call /init (or /sbin/init) before it was fully ready 
> to handle userspace processes, so why should it feel able to call the 
> hotplug userspace?
> 
I could speculate in case it needs to hotplug something to complete 
boot, but it could just be a thinko.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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