Re: [PATCH] fix for 2.4.10 initialization

From: Greg KH (gregat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 09:06:16 PDT

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    On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 11:26:43PM +1000, James Morris wrote:
    > It seems that LSM now needs to be initialized earlier during the boot
    > process, as the 2.4.10 kernel attempts to mount a pseudo filesystem for
    > block devices during vfs_caches_init().  This generates a call to
    > capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN) before the dummy module is loaded, causing an oops.
    > 
    > 
    > Please see the patch below for a possible fix.
    
    Looks good, please apply it.
    
    thanks,
    
    greg k-h
    
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