Re: Crash caused by "EDAC: Rip out the edac_subsys reference counting" (was Re: linux-next: Tree for Dec 8)

Borislav Petkov
2015-12-09T17:38:47Z

On Wed, Dec 09, 2015 at 10:50:09AM -0600, Scott Wood wrote:
> It's not "a driver's probe function". There is no driver whose .probe() is
> mpc85xx_pci_err_probe() -- the name is historical.

>From looking at it, it behaves a lot like a probe function. Irrespective
of what it is or it isn't, calling it from outside a driver which can be
built as a module is a no-no. So I'd appreciate it if someone could test
Johannes' patch on the relevant hardware.

Thanks.

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