On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel