Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:48:57 +0100
From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted
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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.
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