Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot...

[Pali RohÃr]

On Saturday 23 May 2015 03:05:36 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> On Saturday 23 May 2015 00:53:16 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Valdis Kletnieks
> > 
> > <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > So after I made both config variables =y, the resulting kernel
> > > built, but died a glorious death at boot.
> > 
> > I guess if both are built-in then, according to link order,
> > dell-laptop starts first, before dell-rbtn, and dies in
> > dell_rbtn_notifier_register() in call to
> > driver_for_each_device(&rbtn_driver.drv, ...) because rbtn_driver
> > has not been registered yet and thus half-initlalized.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
> pr_debug() messages could be useful... but no idea if we can get
> them.
> 
> Is there any way to fix that dependency race condition? Could
> driver_attach() function call help?

Or what about using late_initcall() instead module_init() for driver 
dell-laptop.ko? By default module_init() for static linked modules is 
macro for device_initcall() which is called before late_initcall(), 
right?

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Pali RohÃr
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