Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] usb: ulpi: ulpi_init should be executed in subsys_initcall

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 08:11:27PM -0700, David Cohen wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 08:09:54PM -0700, David Cohen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 10:07:05AM +0800, Lu Baolu wrote:
> > > Many drivers and modules depend on ULPI bus registeration to
> > > register ULPI interfaces and drivers. It's more appropriate
> > > to register ULPI bus in subsys_initcall instead of module_init.
> > > 
> > > Kernel panic has been reported with some kind of kernel config.
> > 
> > Even though I agree subsys_initcall is better to register ulpi bus, it's
> > still no excuse to have kernel panic. What about ULPI bus being compiled
> > as module?
> > IMHO this is avoiding the proper kernel panic fix which should be
> > failing gracefully (or defer probe) from tusb1210 driver.
> 
> Maybe I need to express myself better :)
> IMHO we should not consider work done with this patch only. It's still
> incomplete.

Then please fix it properly, this is not the correct solution.

greg k-h