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Message-ID: <20071022125334.GA10563@infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 22 Oct 2007 13:53:34 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	"Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@....usu.ru>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Henrik Carlqvist <hc1@...lhem.se>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tristate and bool not enogh for Kconfig anymore

On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 05:27:51PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Yes, there is a call to usermodehelper_init() before the initcalls in 
> do_basic_setup(), this does mean that firmware can be loaded by means of 
> the old and obsolete /sbin/hotplug mechanism, but who has /sbin/hotplug now?

I do.  We're not going to cripple the kernel just because you use fucked
up userspace.

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