On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 10:49:45AM -0700, David Miller wrote: > From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:46:22 +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, build and link the irda networking code in the same exact > > order that it was previously before the move. > > > > 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 > > Greg, just change the initializer in IRDA so that it will run > after subsys_init() when built statically. > > IRDA is definitely not the first pontentially statically built > thing that needs netlink up and available.
Ok, will do that tomorrow and test it and send you the patch. thanks, greg k-h