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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:48:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211104857.GA16009@aepfle.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200612110436_MC3-1-D49E-FE59@compuserve.com>

On Mon, Dec 11, Chuck Ebbert wrote:

> Why not create a new initcall category for things that must run before
> early userspace?

Why do you want to continue with papering over the root cause?
Pick some janitor, let him write something that implements something
like make style dependencies for initcalls.
Then you can get rid of all that foo_initcall stuff.
It surely needs work to get all that done.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 10:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-11  9:33 [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted Chuck Ebbert
2006-12-11 10:48 ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-12-11 10:52   ` Al Viro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-12-11  8:27 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
2006-12-12  2:08                       ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-12  2:17                         ` Dominik Brodowski
2006-12-12  2:23                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-11  9:13 ` Al Viro
2006-12-11  9:40   ` Michael Tokarev
2006-12-11 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-12-12 12:20   ` Michael Tokarev

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