crash in init_ipic_sysfs on efika

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Mar 21 22:18:35 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-03-20 at 11:32 +0000, Matt Sealey wrote:
> subsys_initcall(init_ipic_sysfs); <-- this, in my eyes, is the culprit. If
> init_ipic() runs, init_ipic_sysfs should be called from that, not left for
> some further subsystem to blindly try and register sysfs nodes for devices
> which may not even be present..
> 
> I'd love someone to explain to me how this works and why, and why it isn't
> braindead? :D

init_ipic() is called way too early to be able to manpipulate sysfs.

Ben.




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