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Message-ID: <200612110436_MC3-1-D49E-FE59@compuserve.com> Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 04:33:00 -0500 From: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@...puserve.com> To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted In-Reply-To: <20061211005557.04643a75.akpm@...l.org> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 00:55:57 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Prevent oops when an app tries to create a pipe while pipefs > > is not mounted. > > That's pretty lame. It means that pipes just won't work, so people who are > using pipes in their initramfs setups will just get mysterious failures > running userspace on a crippled kernel. I know, I just wanted to keep the issue alive. :) > I think the bug really is the running of populate_rootfs() before running > the initcalls, in init/main.c:init(). It's just more sensible to start > running userspace after the initcalls have been run. Statically-linked > drivers which want to load firmware files will lose. To fix that we'd need > a new callback. It could be with a new linker section or perhaps simply a > notifier chain. Why not create a new initcall category for things that must run before early userspace? -- MBTI: IXTP - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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