linux-kernel - Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot...

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Date:	Mon, 25 May 2015 08:03:42 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot...

On Monday 25 May 2015 07:01:21 Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 09:44:32PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> > Greg, Matthew, I'm tempted to recommend this 434 line driver be
> > rolled into dell-laptop.c. Any strong opinions?
> 
> Mrm. It's slightly conceptually nasty in that one's an ACPI driver
> and one's calling a Dell custom interface, but I think merging them
> is probably the last bad answer.

I think merging does not fix our problem. dell laptop rfkill driver 
needs to be initialized after dell-rbtn acpi driver register itself.

And dell-laptop and dell-rbtn are two different devices (one dell smbios 
and one acpi) and it for me it sounds like bad idea too...

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com

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