Messages in this thread | | | From | Pali Rohár <> | Subject | Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot... | Date | Sat, 23 May 2015 03:05:36 +0200 |
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On Saturday 23 May 2015 00:53:16 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Valdis Kletnieks > > <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote: > > So after I made both config variables =y, the resulting kernel > > built, but died a glorious death at boot. > > I guess if both are built-in then, according to link order, > dell-laptop starts first, before dell-rbtn, and dies in > dell_rbtn_notifier_register() in call to > driver_for_each_device(&rbtn_driver.drv, ...) because rbtn_driver has > not been registered yet and thus half-initlalized. > > Thanks.
pr_debug() messages could be useful... but no idea if we can get them.
Is there any way to fix that dependency race condition? Could driver_attach() function call help?
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