On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:26:08PM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:35:07AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:14:17 +0200 > > > > > Now that the IRDA networking code has moved into drivers/staging/, the > > > link order is changed for when it is initialized if built into the > > > system. This can cause a crash when initializing as the netfilter core > > > hasn't been initialized yet. > > > > > > So force the IRDA code to be built as a module, preventing the crash. > > > > > > Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang...@intel.com> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gre...@linuxfoundation.org > > > > I don't think this is reasonable. > > > > IRDA being built in was broken by moving it to staging, so it's a > > regression and we should find a way to fix it. > > Hm, this is due to netlink coming before irda in the link order before > this patch series. I can't change the link order to put all of net/ > before drivers/, which would solve this, and I don't think I can put: > obj-$(CONFIG_IRDA) += ../../drivers/staging/irda/net/ > in a networking Makefile, can I? Does "../" even work in a Makefile > like that?
Wait, I think that does work, let me go test this some more... thanks, greg k-h- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
