Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot...

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Fri May 22 2015 - 21:05:46 EST


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?

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Pali RohÃr
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