From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>,
Michael Hohnbaum <hohnbaum@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch][trivial] fix drivers/base/cpu.c
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:19:41 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E381B3D.4030302@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030129055547.GL780@holomorphy.com
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William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> In message <3E2F2EC1.4090606@us.ibm.com> Matt Dobson (?) wrote:
>
>>>Both drivers/base/node.c & memblk.c check the return values of the
>>>devclass_register & driver_register calls. cpu.c doesn't. This little
>>>patch remedies that omission.
>>
>
> On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:51:04PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote:
>
>>You'd want to to undo the devclass_register() on failure, too, I
>>imagine.
>
>
> Ow, I forgot about that. Someone grind this out quick and take care of
> the other oopsing thingies. You know what I'm preoccupied with.
>
> -- wli
Good point Rusty, cleanup attatched...
Cheers!
-Matt
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diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/cpu.c linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/cpu.c
--- linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/cpu.c Thu Jan 16 18:21:51 2003
+++ linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/cpu.c Wed Jan 29 10:16:26 2003
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@
static int __init register_cpu_type(void)
{
- devclass_register(&cpu_devclass);
- return driver_register(&cpu_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&cpu_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&cpu_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&cpu_devclass);
+ return error;
}
postcore_initcall(register_cpu_type);
diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/memblk.c linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/memblk.c
--- linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/memblk.c Thu Jan 16 18:22:57 2003
+++ linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/memblk.c Wed Jan 29 10:16:08 2003
@@ -49,7 +49,10 @@
static int __init register_memblk_type(void)
{
- int error = devclass_register(&memblk_devclass);
- return error ? error : driver_register(&memblk_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&memblk_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&memblk_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&memblk_devclass);
+ return error;
}
postcore_initcall(register_memblk_type);
diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/node.c linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/node.c
--- linux-2.5.59-vanilla/drivers/base/node.c Thu Jan 16 18:21:40 2003
+++ linux-2.5.59-driver_base_cleanup/drivers/base/node.c Wed Jan 29 10:15:12 2003
@@ -91,7 +91,10 @@
static int __init register_node_type(void)
{
- int error = devclass_register(&node_devclass);
- return error ? error : driver_register(&node_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&node_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&node_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&node_devclass);
+ return error;
}
postcore_initcall(register_node_type);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-29 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-22 23:52 [patch][trivial] fix drivers/base/cpu.c Matthew Dobson
2003-01-29 4:51 ` Rusty Russell
2003-01-29 5:55 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-01-29 18:19 ` Matthew Dobson [this message]
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