On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:11:31PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote: > 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... Yup, that's the fix for this issue. Geert, does that fix the problem for you? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
