From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oliver Neukum Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 23:59:34 +0000 Subject: Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed. Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org > Have we considered the possibility that the kernel thread spawned by > exec_usermodehelper could sleep on a wait queue if invoked too early in > the boot sequence, and the kernel could call wake_up() on that wait queue > after the root filesystem is mounted? That way, we can just forget about > this special case. > > Or is that still too early in the boot sequence? Do we need to wait for > other filesystems to be mounted? Most certainly yes. You need proc and usbdevfs. usr or devfs are conceivable, too. Even var might be needed. If you wish to wait, why not wait for activation by sysctl ? Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel