Re: [patch] pipe: Don't oops when pipe filesystem isn't mounted

[Linus Torvalds]

On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> Looks like this might break pcmcia which for some reason does firmware
> requesting at fs_initcall level (drivers/pcmcia/ds.c).

Ok, that's just strange. 

I think it's fine to do init_pcmcia_bus early to make sure that the PCMCIA 
bus interface is there by the time the driver init stuff happens, but I 
really don't see the point of that firmware load to be there. And all that 
MATCH_FAKE_CIS stuff is about the _devices_, not the PCMCIA bus, so that 
whole thing looks pretty silly. It should be done by the device 
registration (which is obviously device_initcall), not by some bus layer.

Hopefully Dominik can fix whatever up (if it even needs it)

		Linus
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