linux-kernel - Re: Crash caused by "EDAC: Rip out the edac_subsys reference counting" (was Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 8)

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Message-ID: <20151209173829.GD10518@pd.tnic>
Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 18:38:29 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>
To:	Scott Wood <scottwood@...escale.com>
Cc:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@...e.de>
Subject: Re: Crash caused by "EDAC: Rip out the edac_subsys reference
 counting" (was Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 8)

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:50:09AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> It's not "a driver's probe function".  There is no driver whose .probe() is
> mpc85xx_pci_err_probe() -- the name is historical.

>From looking at it, it behaves a lot like a probe function. Irrespective
of what it is or it isn't, calling it from outside a driver which can be
built as a module is a no-no. So I'd appreciate it if someone could test
Johannes' patch on the relevant hardware.

Thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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