Re: [PATCH v2] uio: ensure class is registered before devices

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 10:34:38AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> On 16/08/2018 10:01:12+0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 09:39:41AM +0200, Alexandre Belloni wrote:
> > > When both uio and the uio drivers are built in the kernel, it is possible
> > > for a driver to register devices before the uio class is registered.
> > 
> > How does this happen?  The link order should solve this issue, right?
> > 
> 
> Sure, if we can ensure uio_init() is called before any driver calls
> uio_register_device() then this would not happen. However, I'm not sure
> how you would want to achieve that.

That is the job of the link order, does this not work properly today?
How have you triggered this so that you could test your patch?

thanks,

greg k-h