Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:28:05 +0200 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:11:31PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote: > On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200 > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > > Hi Greg, > > > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people > > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it, > > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from > > > the kernel in a few releases. > > > > (diving into an early boot crash) > > > > Have you tried running this? ;-) > > > > irda_init() and net_dev_init() are both subsys_initcall()s. > > But the former now runs before the latter, leading to: > > > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 > > Should be fixed by https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/807006/ > ("[net-next] staging: irda: force to be a kernel module") I guess...
Yup, that's the fix for this issue.
Geert, does that fix the problem for you?
thanks,
greg k-h
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