Re: [PATCH 04/11] hwmon: applesmc: Introduce a register lookup table (rev2)

[Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:14:38PM -0500, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> >>
> 
> >> Looking at this again, it seems there are two other problems as well. Firstly,
> >> the cache memory is not freed after probe failure, my apologies. Secondly,
> >> execution continues after a probe failure, and the initialization is retried. I
> >> would like to push the latter problem to some other occasion, since the whole
> >> platform logic should be rewritten for the new interface, anyways.
> >>
> > I see the cache problem; this is indeed a tricky one, since it is actually not yet
> > a problem after this patch, but will be one after patch 5.
> > 
> > I don't understand the second problem, though. Looking into the code,
> > the probe function will return an error if applesmc_init_smcreg() fails.
> > Am I missing something ? What execution continues ?
> 
> 
> I think drivers/base/dd.c:142 shows the problem clearly. Basically, the probe
> function is supposed to do the proper initialization, if successful. The driver
> code has been rewritten heavily since the days of the applesmc, and the actual
> probe error is now masked in a rather ugly fashion to allow the driver matching
> to continue. It seems to me that the only clean way around this is to actually
> implement the correct platform driver logic.
> 
Ok, guess there is nothing we can do about that. I'll apply the rest of your series.

Thanks,
Guenter