linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] irda: fix link order if IRDA is built into the kernel

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Date:   Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:49:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        samuel@...tiz.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        fengguang.wu@...el.com, geert@...ux-m68k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] irda: fix link order if IRDA is built into
 the kernel

From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:46:22 +0200

> When moving the IRDA code out of net/ into drivers/staging/irda/net, the
> link order changes when IRDA is built into the kernel.  That causes a
> kernel crash at boot time as netfilter isn't initialized yet.
> 
> To fix this, build and link the irda networking code in the same exact
> order that it was previously before the move.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@...uxfoundation.org

Greg, just change the initializer in IRDA so that it will run
after subsys_init() when built statically.

IRDA is definitely not the first pontentially statically built
thing that needs netlink up and available.