Re: Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> I think it is be rather very unsafe to have /sbin/hotplug be called
> before the system finishes with all initcalls...

Yes it is - it unconvered some very interesting MM problems on x86-64
(now fixed, but there might be more lurking)

-Andi
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References:
- Christmas list for the kernel
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- Re: Christmas list for the kernel
  - From: Greg KH <[email protected]>
- Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel)
  - From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>

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