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...
next prev parent 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]
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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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