On Feb 22 2007, at 19:44, Jan Engelhardt was caught saying: > > On Feb 22 2007 14:30, Michael Tokarev wrote: > >Deepak Saxena wrote: > >> We attempted an experiment in cleaning up some modprobe messages during > >> initramfs bootup when the modules directory is missing by moving modprobe > >> to modprobe-bin and replacing modprobe with the following simple shell > >> script: > >> > >> #!/bin/sh > >> # Clean up bootup when modules are not present > >> > >> if [ -e "/lib/modules/'uname -r'/modules.dep" ] ; then > >> /sbin/modprobe-bin $* > > The nitpick guide says: `uname -r` and "$@" instead of $* ;-)
Yeah. The quotes were a typo in my email. :) > >This is the same issue I reported much earlier with /sbin/hotplug being a > >script > >in initrfamfs. The problem is because pipefs isn't initialized yet at the > >time > >the script gets called, and causes a NULL-pointer deref. Obviously you're > >using > >pipe above. > > Btw, has this pipefs issue been adressed (by moving pipefs before initramfs > stage), or something? If it hasn't, it's now on my todo list. -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net In the end, they will not say, "those were dark times," they will ask "why were their poets silent?" - Bertolt Brecht - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/