linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

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Message-ID: <20090226170320.GA25475@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:03:20 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...radead.org>,
	Ben Backx <ben@...ckx.com>, Henrik Kurelid <henrik@...elid.se>
Subject: Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver


* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:

> Two choices that I can see:
> 
>  - do the ieee1394_init() as a fs_initcall(), earlier
> 
>  - move drivers/ieee1394 linking up to before drivers/media
> 
> but I suspect that drivers/media wants to be early, in order to do the 
> _media_ layer initialization early.
> 
> Does this work?

yes, i just tested it and your patch fixes the crash:

 mercury:~> uname -a
 Linux mercury 2.6.29-rc6-tip-02011-gb62a1ed-dirty #250 SMP Thu 
 Feb 26 19:00:54 CET 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
 mercury:~> uptime
  19:02:51 up 0 min,  1 user,  load average: 3.97, 1.10, 0.37

Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>

Thanks!

	Ingo
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