On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:35:20AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Sure, if we can make userspace behave nicely, I'm all for doing it. On
> the other hand, I think it's a good thing to provide a sane
> environment by the kernel for any "non-initramfs-optimized" helper.
> Writing to /dev/console is a us
Let's take a step back, shall we? Fundamentally, what's going on here
is that a particular distribution's initrd (Debian's, to be precise)
is running into an error in response to a modprobe request for
char-major-5-1, and it is attempting to write to the console, which is
resulting in another modp
