Re: Modprobe as script breaks initramfs kernel?

[Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>]

On Feb 22 2007, at 19:44, Jan Engelhardt was caught saying:
> 
> On Feb 22 2007 14:30, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> >Deepak Saxena wrote:
> >> We attempted an experiment in cleaning up some modprobe messages during 
> >> initramfs bootup when the modules directory is missing by moving modprobe 
> >> to modprobe-bin and replacing modprobe with the following simple shell script:
> >> 
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> # Clean up bootup when modules are not present
> >> 
> >> if [ -e "/lib/modules/'uname -r'/modules.dep" ] ; then
> >> 	/sbin/modprobe-bin $*
> 
> The nitpick guide says: `uname -r` and "$@" instead of $*  ;-)

Yeah. The quotes were a typo in my email. :)

> >This is the same issue I reported much earlier with /sbin/hotplug being a script
> >in initrfamfs.  The problem is because pipefs isn't initialized yet at the time
> >the script gets called, and causes a NULL-pointer deref.  Obviously you're using
> >pipe above.
> 
> Btw, has this pipefs issue been adressed (by moving pipefs before initramfs
> stage), or something?

If it hasn't, it's now on my todo list.

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