From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
Ben Backx <ben@bbackx.com>, Henrik Kurelid <henrik@kurelid.se>
Subject: Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:03:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090226170320.GA25475@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0902260824470.3111@localhost.localdomain>
* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> Two choices that I can see:
>
> - do the ieee1394_init() as a fs_initcall(), earlier
>
> - move drivers/ieee1394 linking up to before drivers/media
>
> but I suspect that drivers/media wants to be early, in order to do the
> _media_ layer initialization early.
>
> Does this work?
yes, i just tested it and your patch fixes the crash:
mercury:~> uname -a
Linux mercury 2.6.29-rc6-tip-02011-gb62a1ed-dirty #250 SMP Thu
Feb 26 19:00:54 CET 2009 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
mercury:~> uptime
19:02:51 up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 3.97, 1.10, 0.37
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thanks!
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-26 17:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 17:48 [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver Stefan Richter
2009-02-26 1:37 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-26 15:59 ` Stefan Richter
2009-02-26 16:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-02-26 17:03 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-27 8:20 ` Stefan Richter
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