From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:26:08 +0200
> 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? > > Any other thoughts? Change the initialization type in IRDA from subsys_init() to ... something else? Amazing! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
