From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:46:22 +0200 > When moving the IRDA code out of net/ into drivers/staging/irda/net, the > link order changes when IRDA is built into the kernel. That causes a > kernel crash at boot time as netfilter isn't initialized yet. > > To fix this, build and link the irda networking code in the same exact > order that it was previously before the move. > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> > Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Greg, just change the initializer in IRDA so that it will run after subsys_init() when built statically. IRDA is definitely not the first pontentially statically built thing that needs netlink up and available. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel