Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> Olaf Hering wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 15, Andrew Walrond wrote:
> >
> > > To solve this, I deleted /sbin/hotplug from the initramfs archive and 
> > > modified /init to reinstate it once it gets control. This works fine, 
> > > but seems inelegant. Is there a better solution? Should sbin/hotplug 
> > > be called at all before the kernel has passed control to /init?
> >
> > Yes, it should be called.
>
> Ok
>
> > /sbin/hotplug and /init are two very different and unrelated things.
>
> Well, of course. But looking at the thread provided by Jan, it seems the 
> kernel might not be in any fit state to service the (userspace) hotplug 
> infrastructure when it makes the calls (Ie can't create pipes yet).
>
> The kernel wouldn't call /init (or /sbin/init) before it was fully ready 
> to handle userspace processes, so why should it feel able to call the 
> hotplug userspace?
I could speculate in case it needs to hotplug something to complete 
boot, but it could just be a thinko.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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