Re: Early boot issues (WAS: Christmas list for the kernel)

[Andi Kleen]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> I think it is be rather very unsafe to have /sbin/hotplug be called
> before the system finishes with all initcalls...

Yes it is - it unconvered some very interesting MM problems on x86-64
(now fixed, but there might be more lurking)

-Andi
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