Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750849AbXAORyh (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:54:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751287AbXAORyh (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:54:37 -0500 Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:45724 "EHLO mail-out.m-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750849AbXAORyg (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:54:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 18:54:37 +0100 From: Olaf Hering To: Andrew Walrond Cc: Jan Engelhardt , LKML Subject: Re: Initramfs and /sbin/hotplug fun Message-ID: <20070115175437.GA26944@aepfle.de> References: <45AB8CB9.2000209@walrond.org> <20070115170412.GA26414@aepfle.de> <45ABBB8B.6000505@walrond.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45ABBB8B.6000505@walrond.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 874 Lines: 19 On Mon, Jan 15, Andrew Walrond wrote: > >/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). Thats because noone really fixed the init call order. Its going back and forth since /init was added in 2.6.6. Ideally, there could be some /earlyinit that could prepare the enviroment for hotplug calls. Why do you need /sbin/hotplug anyway, just for firmware loading for a non-modular kernel? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/