Re: [PATCH] init:main.c: start 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little early

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:09 AM, wangyanqing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> commit d5767c53535ac79758084773418e0ad186aba4a2 move 'usermodehelper_enable()'
> to end of rest_init, then I get failed to let uvesafb work on my computer, and
> lose the splash boot.So maybe we could start usermodehelper_enable a little early
> to make some task work that need eary init with the help of user mode.

Grr. Initcalls *really* shouldn't depend on usermode helpers.

That said, I'm not entirely shocked if they do. But could you try to
describe *which* initcall it is? The call trace should tell you?

I'm not saying the patch is wrong (and it may be what we have to do at
this point), but I do think it would be even better if we could fix
the real problem of initcalls calling usermode helpers instead...

           Linus
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