Hi Greg, On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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: >> > 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, that patch fixes the crash, obviously. It does mean you can no longer have IrDA in a non-modular kernel. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
