[PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Greg,

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 01:11:31PM +0200, Stefano Brivio wrote:
>> On Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200
>> Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
>> > <gregkh at 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...
>
> Yup, that's the fix for this issue.
>
> Geert, does that fix the problem for you?

Thanks, that patch fixes the crash, obviously.

It does mean you can no longer have IrDA in a non-modular kernel.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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