Darryl L. Miles schrieb:
> 
> The exact patch for kernel/module.c that was marked for 2.6.11-rcX hit 
> general release in patch-2.6.12.
That explains a lot. Thanks for clarification : )

> What $PID is bash running as ?  Martin's comments on this are seem most 
> relevant.
The initramfs contains /init which is a shell script, while /bin/sh is 
bash. So I figure bash is running with PID 1, but I'll verify that by 
adding echo $$ to the init script.

> Can you build your own (2 pages of code) init process, that does 
> something along the lines of
> * gracefully handles SIGCHLD
> * forks
> * executes bash
> * waits for bash to exit much like the patch does
> 
> So bash is not running a pid 1.  While nash is expected to run as init, 
> bash is not, so fixing bash might also break it (its a complex beast).
> 
I'm not (yet) too much into C programming, so I'm afraid I won't be able 
to do that. As this problem arises only due to my own early-userspace 
setup, I'd rather try using different shells for init-as-shell-script, 
and maybe do some not-so-clean hacks to get the bigger picture.

As this is not a kernel issue, I'd rather take this one off LKML and 
write a success report once appropriate.

Thanks for your help to everyone involved : )