Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752674AbdH2LLk (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:11:40 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59504 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751392AbdH2LLi (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 07:11:38 -0400 DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mx1.redhat.com 2BFE36DB Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=redhat.com Authentication-Results: ext-mx05.extmail.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=sbrivio@redhat.com Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:11:31 +0200 From: Stefano Brivio To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , "David S. Miller" , Samuel Ortiz , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , driverdevel Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it Message-ID: <20170829131131.6e11c8f9@elisabeth> In-Reply-To: References: <20170827150334.32495-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Organization: Red Hat MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.29]); Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:11:38 +0000 (UTC) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 27 On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Greg, > > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman > 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