Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted

[Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>]

On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:48:57AM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 11, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> 
> > Why not create a new initcall category for things that must run before
> > early userspace?
> 
> Why do you want to continue with papering over the root cause?
> Pick some janitor, let him write something that implements something
> like make style dependencies for initcalls.
> Then you can get rid of all that foo_initcall stuff.
> It surely needs work to get all that done.

I would argue that _this_ is papering over the root cause.  Namely,
too complex ordering requirements.  Growing a technics for allowing
them to fester is an odd solution...
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