From: Heiko Carstens This allows to create workqueues from within the context of a pre smp initcall (aka early_initcall). Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens --- init/main.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6/init/main.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/init/main.c +++ linux-2.6/init/main.c @@ -767,8 +767,6 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void) static void __init do_basic_setup(void) { rcu_init_sched(); /* needed by module_init stage. */ - /* drivers will send hotplug events */ - init_workqueues(); usermodehelper_init(); driver_init(); init_irq_proc(); @@ -852,6 +850,8 @@ static int __init kernel_init(void * unu cad_pid = task_pid(current); + init_workqueues(); + smp_prepare_cpus(setup_max_cpus); do_pre_smp_initcalls(); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/