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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