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From: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
To: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: fenghua.yu@intel.com, khali@linux-fr.org,
	gong.chen@linux.intel.com, lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: x86/hwmon: fix module init for hotplug-but-no-device-found case
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:50:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924185008.GA20110@ericsson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8E139F0200007800015AA5@vpn.id2.novell.com>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 10:05:51AM -0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> In commit 0dca94baeab4a1a514841b0a4c8e3a51dfb4d5ae the call to
> platform_driver_unregister() was made conditional upon !HOTPLUG_CPU,
> but the return value from coretemp_init() was left to indicate an
> error. This isn't correct, as the negative return value indicates to
> the module loader that initialization failed, which isn't intended
> here and results in dangling pointers.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
> Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
> 
Looks like my previous mail got lost or stuck in our e-mail system.
Trying again. Sorry if this message is received twice.

I have not seen an Acked-by for this set of patches, nor a Nack. Since 
(most of) the patches fix real bugs, I applied the ones which do into
my staging tree, and the others into my -next tree.

Guenter

      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 18:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-13 10:05 [PATCH] x86/hwmon: fix module init for hotplug-but-no-device-found case Jan Beulich
2010-09-14  6:30 ` [lm-sensors] " Chen Gong
2010-09-14  6:47   ` Jan Beulich
2010-09-14  7:46     ` Chen Gong
2010-09-14  8:19       ` Jan Beulich
2010-09-24  4:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2010-09-24 18:50 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]

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