Re: 2.6.15-rc6: boot failure in saa7134-alsa.c

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:32:41 -0800 (PST),
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>...
> > > So, a "safe" solution for the time being appears to be either
> > > - to look through the whole codes and adjust *_initcall() levels,
> > > - to force to build saa7134-alsa as a module, or
> > > - to move saa7134-alsa.c to sound/ directory.
> > 
> > Well, you dropped the easiest: make saa7134 just use "late_initcall()".
> > 
> > It's not "correct", but it's certainly no less correct than just forcing a 
> > driver to be moved for link order reasons.
> 
> Yep, that's obviously the easiest one.  I'd vote for this, at least
> for 2.6.15, once after it's confirmed to work.

I've already stated somewhere in this thread that this did fix it for 
me.

> Takashi

cu
Adrian

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