Re: chicken/egg between pipefs and initramfs/hotplug

[Andrew Morton]

Thayne Harbaugh <tharbaugh@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> It appears that linux/init/main.c:init() has a chicken/egg problem.
> Apparently modprobe and other programs need a pipe and pipefs isn't
> mounted until later on in do_basic_setup()/do_initcalls().  That means
> that linux/fs/pipe.c:static struct vfsmount *pipe_mnt;  isn't
> initialized and blows up when it's derefernced in
> linux/fs/pipe.c:get_pipe_inode().

That's a bit sad.  Does this fix it?

--- 25/fs/pipe.c~a	Tue Oct 26 16:28:44 2004
+++ 25-akpm/fs/pipe.c	Tue Oct 26 16:28:52 2004
@@ -718,5 +718,5 @@ static void __exit exit_pipe_fs(void)
 	mntput(pipe_mnt);
 }
 
-module_init(init_pipe_fs)
+fs_initcall(init_pipe_fs)
 module_exit(exit_pipe_fs)
_

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