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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/4] irda: move it to drivers/staging so we can delete it
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    From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
    Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 12:59:00 +0200

    > Hi Greg,
    >
    > On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 5:03 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
    > <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
    >> The IRDA code has long been obsolete and broken. So, to keep people
    >> from trying to use it, and to prevent people from having to maintain it,
    >> let's move it to drivers/staging/ so that we can delete it entirely from
    >> the kernel in a few releases.
    >
    > (diving into an early boot crash)
    >
    > Have you tried running this? ;-)
    >
    > irda_init() and net_dev_init() are both subsys_initcall()s.
    > But the former now runs before the latter, leading to:

    We must find a way to make the ordering proper again when both are
    built-in.

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