Christopher Friedt wrote: > Christopher Friedt (1): > Corrected missing binary module dependency of hwa-hc on hwa-rc and > consistent probe failure of hwa-hc. The problem: hwa-rc did not > export any symbols, but hwa-hc depended on it. Hwa-hc gets its > uwb_rc through private driver data. If hwa-rc is not loaded prior > to hwa-hc, then that private driver data is NULL. The problem is > fixed manually by loading hwa-rc and then hwa-hc. However, due to > the missing binary module dependency (i.e. "Used by" field in > lsmod), one can rmove the hwa-rc module while the hwa-hc module is > loaded, leaving any pointers to the uwb_rc struct invalid. This > patch is obviously mainly for illustrative purposes, but it does > actually fix both of the aforementioned problems. NAK. There is a device dependency not a module dependency. See my other email for a suggested solution. In the short term, I'd suggest looking at some udev rules to get the hwa-rc module loaded before the hwa-hc module. David -- David Vrabel, Senior Software Engineer, Drivers CSR, Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Tel: +44 (0)1223 692562 Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ http://www.csr.com/ Member of the CSR plc group of companies. CSR plc registered in England and Wales, registered number 4187346, registered office Churchill House, Cambridge Business Park, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WZ, United Kingdom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
