On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 02:11:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > 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. Given that irda doesn't really work, I doubt anyone is going to care about it :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
