From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:16:49 +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, move the init call level of the irda core to be
> device_initcall() as the link order keeps this being initialized at the
> correct time.
> 
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <fengguang...@intel.com>
> Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <ge...@linux-m68k.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> 
> v3 - just change the initcall level, works so much simpler, thanks to
>      DaveM for the idea.
> v2 - don't force irda to be a module, make the Makefiles put irda back
>      where it was before in the link order.

Applied, thanks for following up on this Greg.
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