linux-kernel - Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun

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Date:	Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:44:32 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Andrew Walrond <andrew@...rond.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun


On Jan 15 2007 14:16, Andrew Walrond wrote:
>
> If the initramfs root filesystem contains /sbin/hotplug, the kernel 
> starts calling it very early in the kernel boot process, well before 
> /init has been called. In my case this resulted in lots of hotplug 
> segfault messages as the kernel boots, followed by a thoroughly 
> unhappy hotplug+udev once /init actually gets control.

Could this be a case of http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/3/19 ?

	-`J'
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