Re: [PATCH] fix for 2.4.10 initialization

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 10:47:36 PDT

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    * James Morris (jmorrisat_private) 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.

thanks james, this looks good.
-chris

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