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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:11:31 +0200 From: Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@...hat.com> To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@...tiz.org>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, driverdevel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote: > > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people > > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it, > > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from > > the kernel in a few releases. > > (diving into an early boot crash) > > Have you tried running this? ;-) > > irda_init() and net_dev_init() are both subsys_initcall()s. > But the former now runs before the latter, leading to: > > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 Should be fixed by https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/807006/ ("[net-next] staging: irda: force to be a kernel module") I guess... -- Stefano
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