On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:09:24 AM CEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If soc_device_register() is called before soc_bus_register(), it crashes > with a NULL pointer dereference. > > soc_bus_register() is already a core_initcall(), but drivers/base/ is > entered later than e.g. drivers/pinctrl/ and drivers/soc/. Hence there > are several subsystems that may need to know SoC revision information, > while it's not so easy to initialize the SoC bus even earlier using an > initcall. > > To fix this, let soc_device_register() register the bus early if that > hasn't happened yet. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx> > Not nice, but I can't think of a better alternative, so Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
