linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ab8500: btemp: demote initcall sequence

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Message-ID: <20130203032130.GB25016@lizard.sbx00618.mountca.wayport.net>
Date:	Sat, 2 Feb 2013 19:21:30 -0800
From:	Anton Vorontsov <anton@...msg.org>
To:	"Rajanikanth H.V" <rajanikanth.hv@...ricsson.com>
Cc:	linus.walleij@...ricsson.com, arnd@...db.de,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linaro-dev@...ts.linaro.org, patches@...aro.org,
	STEricsson_nomadik_linux@...t.st.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ab8500: btemp: demote initcall sequence

On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:56:45AM +0530, Rajanikanth H.V wrote:
> From: "Rajanikanth H.V" <rajanikanth.hv@...ricsson.com>
> 
> Power supply subsystem creates thermal zone device for
> the property 'POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_TEMP' which requires
> thermal subsystem to be ready before 'ab8500 battery temperature monitor'
> driver is initialized.
> ab8500 btemp driver is initialized with subsys_initcall whereas thermal
> subsystem is initialized with fs_initcall which causes
> thermal_zone_device_register(...) to crash since the required structure
> 'thermal_class' is not initialized yet.
> 
> crash log:
[...]
> Signed-off-by: Rajanikanth H.V <rajanikanth.hv@...ricsson.com>
> ---

Applied and added Cc: stable.

Thanks!
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