Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Aug 2017 21:05:03 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] irda: fix link order if IRDA is built into the kernel |
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On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:49:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:46:22 +0200 > > > When moving the IRDA code out of net/ into drivers/staging/irda/net, the > > link order changes when IRDA is built into the kernel. That causes a > > kernel crash at boot time as netfilter isn't initialized yet. > > > > To fix this, build and link the irda networking code in the same exact > > order that it was previously before the move. > > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> > > Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org > > Greg, just change the initializer in IRDA so that it will run > after subsys_init() when built statically. > > IRDA is definitely not the first pontentially statically built > thing that needs netlink up and available.
Ok, will do that tomorrow and test it and send you the patch.
thanks,
greg k-h
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