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From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot...
Date: Sat, 23 May 2015 03:05:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201505230305.36633@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKdAkRQRdFBsgCmvL-aTKL=1xxPN-YYVEa0nTVkEV9jHMbzgYA@mail.gmail.com>

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On Saturday 23 May 2015 00:53:16 Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Valdis Kletnieks
> 
> <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> 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?

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-23  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-22  2:06 dell_rbtn - kernel panic at boot Valdis Kletnieks
2015-05-22 22:53 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2015-05-23  1:05   ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2015-05-23 20:08     ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-25  4:44     ` Darren Hart
2015-05-25  5:01       ` Matthew Garrett
2015-05-25  6:03         ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-27  4:16           ` Darren Hart
2015-05-27  7:28             ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-29  3:15               ` Darren Hart
2015-05-25 14:40       ` Pali Rohár
2015-05-27  4:09         ` Darren Hart
2015-05-27  4:24           ` Darren Hart

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