Re: [PATCH 1/7] sysdev: Do not register with sysdev when erroring on add

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 05:16:59PM -0500, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 04:28:57PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> > From: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
> > 
> > When encountering an error while executing the driver's ->add method, we
> > should cancel registration and unwind what we've regged so far. The low
> > level ->add methods do return proper error codes but those aren't looked
> > at in sysdev_driver_register(). Fix that by sharing the unregistering
> > code.
> 
> Have you actually hit this before?  If so, where?

Sorta. I want to be paranoid when loading the microcode image file and
in patch 3/7 (http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129588287409770) I
propagate the error in case loading the microcode fails. If we don't
cleanup here, the driver remains loaded and takes up resources. And if
you load it again, you get a sysfs warning about duplicated entries.

> > Also, fixup warning messages formatting while at it.
> 
> Please, no, one patch per thing.  Please break this up into two
> different patches.

Yes, will do.

> And, in the future, let me know that you need this for other work.

Will do.

> Actually, why did you send this to Ingo in your pull request?  What does
> your microcode patches need from this patch?  It should go through my
> tree, especially as there is other sysdev work happening at the moment.

Sorry about that, I did not mean to bypass/offend you in any way.

> so, no, please don't send this on to anyone else right now.

Do you need the patches rediffed against a some tree of yours?

@Ingo: please disregard my pull request from today:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=129648061017908

Guys, sorry again if I've caused any trouble.

Thanks.

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