Re: Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel)

Andi Kleen
2005-11-23T15:21:19Z

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
>
> I think it is be rather very unsafe to have /sbin/hotplug be called
> before the system finishes with all initcalls...

Yes it is - it unconvered some very interesting MM problems on x86-64
(now fixed, but there might be more lurking)

-Andi