From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757901AbZBZRED (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:04:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755539AbZBZRDq (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:03:46 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:55736 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755229AbZBZRDp (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:03:45 -0500 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:03:20 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Stefan Richter , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Ben Backx , Henrik Kurelid Subject: Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver Message-ID: <20090226170320.GA25475@elte.hu> References: <20090226013708.GA16892@elte.hu> <49A6BC72.5050206@s5r6.in-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Linus Torvalds 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 Thanks! Ingo