Messages in this thread |  | | From | Arnd Bergmann <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/4] base: soc: Early register bus when needed | Date | Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:15:05 +0200 |
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On Tuesday, October 4, 2016 11:09:24 AM CEST Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > If soc_device_register() is called before soc_bus_register(), it crashes > with a NULL pointer dereference. > > soc_bus_register() is already a core_initcall(), but drivers/base/ is > entered later than e.g. drivers/pinctrl/ and drivers/soc/. Hence there > are several subsystems that may need to know SoC revision information, > while it's not so easy to initialize the SoC bus even earlier using an > initcall. > > To fix this, let soc_device_register() register the bus early if that > hasn't happened yet. > > Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> >
Not nice, but I can't think of a better alternative, so
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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