linux-kernel - Re: Regression on cpufreq in v3.12-rc1

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <CACRpkdasfW9OzZHPgfksjkHgw+Z-n7Tc_d2yXYy+BjShUhAYFg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:40:24 +0200
From:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Regression on cpufreq in v3.12-rc1

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Srivatsa S. Bhat
<srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 09/20/2013 08:51 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:

>> sa11x0_pcmcia_init() which starts this chain of events is called as
>> an fs_initcall(), see drivers/pcmcia/sa1100_generic.c
>
> But fs_initcall() comes after arch_initcall() right? (looking at
> include/linux/init.h). Since the corresponding cpufreq-driver (drivers/
> cpufreq/sa1100-cpufreq.c) uses arch_initcall() to register itself, it
> is all the more surprising how this could happen...

Hm it does happen if the cpufreq driver does not probe *at all*
right? I will look closer at this, maybe it just doesn't register
properly for some SA1100 variants...

Yours,
Linus Walleij
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/