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From: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
	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 10:52:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061211105219.GH4587@ftp.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061211104857.GA16009@aepfle.de>

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> 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.

I would argue that _this_ is papering over the root cause.  Namely,
too complex ordering requirements.  Growing a technics for allowing
them to fester is an odd solution...

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-11 10:52 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
2006-12-11 10:52   ` Al Viro [this message]
  -- 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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