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| From | Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it |
| Date | 2017-08-29 13:20 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ujMIN-1VL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <uj7mi-Vo-23@gated-at.bofh.it> <ujMpr-1Ae-5@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | Red Hat |
On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people
> > from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
> > let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
> > the kernel in a few releases.
>
> (diving into an early boot crash)
>
> Have you tried running this? ;-)
>
> irda_init() and net_dev_init() are both subsys_initcall()s.
> But the former now runs before the latter, leading to:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
Should be fixed by https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/807006/
("[net-next] staging: irda: force to be a kernel module") I guess...
--
Stefano
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[PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-27 17:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-08-27 17:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-27 18:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-08-27 18:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-27 19:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-08-28 01:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-08-29 01:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2017-08-29 01:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-29 07:10 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> - 2017-08-29 23:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-31 06:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Ondrej Zary <linux@rainbow-software.org> - 2017-08-31 09:40 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-08-29 13:00 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Stefano Brivio <sbrivio@redhat.com> - 2017-08-29 13:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-29 13:30 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2017-08-29 14:20 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-08-29 16:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-08-29 18:50 +0200
Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2017-08-29 18:40 +0200
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