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    bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' a little earlier · b0f84374
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     ("bootup: move 'usermodehelper_enable()' to the end
    of do_basic_setup()") moved 'usermodehelper_enable()' to end of
    do_basic_setup() to after the initcalls.  But 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.
    
    [ I would *really* prefer that initcalls not call into user space - even
      the real 'init' hasn't been execve'd yet, after all! But for uvesafb
      it really does look like we don't have much choice.
    
      I considered doing this when we mount the root filesystem, but
      depending on config options that is in multiple places.  We could do
      the usermode helper enable as a rootfs_initcall()..
    
      So I'm just using wang yanqing's trivial patch.  It's not wonderful,
      but it's simple and should work.  We should revisit this some day,
      though.      - Linus ]
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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