On Sunday 27 May 2007 4:45 pm, Michael-Luke Jones wrote: > (Slightly OT: A particularly nasty race is when an initramfs > userspace is present, but firmware loading cannot occur because init > has not run, so proc hasn't been mounted, so a hotplug event handler > cannot be registered, despite the fact that the firmware is sitting > on the ramdisk mounted correctly...)
I believe that the current functionality is that /sbin/hotplug is the default. I think that if there is one in initramfs, it'll get called as a usermode helper, even before init has run. (If it needs /proc /sys or /dev, setting it up properly is its problem, but not an insurmountable one.) I remember discussion of this a while back, and that it was indeed intentional. I dunno if anybody's actually tried it. Rob - 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/
