On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 02:34:36AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > There are plenty of drivers in there using subsys_initcall, arch_initcall, > postcore_initcall, core_initcall and even one pure_initcall. > > Heaven knows why. They're drivers :( > A heck of a lot of things can trigger an /sbin/hotplug run. It could well > be that Andrew's driver didn't want to run hotplug at all, but the kernel > did it anwyay. But as soon as the script appeared at /sbin/hotplug, and it > happened to use foo|bar: boom. Again, I agree with moving pipes up, but keep in mind that any caller of /sbin/hotplug either * doesn't need it or * really handles failure or * really should _not_ be run before populate_rootfs() - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] 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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