[46/74] ixgbe: fix registration order of driver and DCA nofitication

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun Apr 07 2013 - 19:29:56 EST


3.2.43-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>

commit f01fc1a82c2ee68726b400fadb156bd623b5f2f1 upstream.

ixgbe_notify_dca cannot be called before driver registration
because it expects driver's klist_devices to be allocated and
initialized. While on it make sure debugfs files are removed
when registration fails.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: no debugfs support]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -8003,12 +8003,15 @@ static int __init ixgbe_init_module(void
pr_info("%s - version %s\n", ixgbe_driver_string, ixgbe_driver_version);
pr_info("%s\n", ixgbe_copyright);

+ ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA
dca_register_notify(&dca_notifier);
#endif

- ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}

module_init(ixgbe_init_module);

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