Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-27 Thread Stefan Richter
Ingo Molnar wrote: * 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.

Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-26 Thread Ingo Molnar
* 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. >

Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-26 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Stefan Richter wrote: > > Alas I have no Linux box at hand before Saturday. I wonder, was > ieee1394_bus_type not yet registered (i.e. ieee1394's ieee1394_init() not yet > called) at the moment when fdtv_init is executed? > > Or what else could have been the NULL pointer d

Re: [git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-26 Thread Stefan Richter
Ingo Molnar wrote: [ 13.756029] calling fdtv_init+0x0/0xf @ 1 [ 13.760074] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0054 [ 13.764023] IP: [] driver_find+0xf/0x24 [ 13.764023] *pde = [ 13.764023] Oops: [#1] SMP [ 13.764023] last sysfs file: [ 13.

[git pull] DVB + ieee1394: firedtv driver

2009-02-24 Thread Stefan Richter
Linus, if you don't mind receiving yet another new driver this late in the game, then please pull from the firedtv-merge branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git firedtv-merge to receive the following IEEE 1394 + DVB updates. More information after