William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 03:54:07PM -0800, Matthew Dobson wrote:
>
>>Linus,
>> The register_(node|memblk)_driver functions are broken. Pat Mochel
>>recently updated sysfs to make sure that when you register a driver that
>>it's associated devclass is already registered. The way node/memblk
>>registration is done now is backwards and causes panic's on NUMA
>>systems. Please apply this patch to fix it.
>>Cheers!
>
>
> That didn't check the return value of devclass_register():
>
>
>
> Reorder devclass_register() and driver_register() so these things
> stop oopsing.
Even better. Thanks Bill!
Cheers!
-Matt
>
> memblk.c | 4 ++--
> node.c | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
>
> diff -urpN mm1-2.5.50/drivers/base/memblk.c mm1-2.5.50-1/drivers/base/memblk.c
> --- mm1-2.5.50/drivers/base/memblk.c 2002-11-27 14:36:23.000000000 -0800
> +++ mm1-2.5.50-1/drivers/base/memblk.c 2002-12-04 12:53:59.000000000 -0800
> @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ int __init register_memblk(struct memblk
>
> static int __init register_memblk_type(void)
> {
> - driver_register(&memblk_driver);
> - return devclass_register(&memblk_devclass);
> + int error = devclass_register(&memblk_devclass);
> + return error ? error : driver_register(&memblk_driver);
> }
> postcore_initcall(register_memblk_type);
> diff -urpN mm1-2.5.50/drivers/base/node.c mm1-2.5.50-1/drivers/base/node.c
> --- mm1-2.5.50/drivers/base/node.c 2002-11-27 14:35:50.000000000 -0800
> +++ mm1-2.5.50-1/drivers/base/node.c 2002-12-04 12:53:05.000000000 -0800
> @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ int __init register_node(struct node *no
>
> static int __init register_node_type(void)
> {
> - driver_register(&node_driver);
> - return devclass_register(&node_devclass);
> + int error = devclass_register(&node_devclass);
> + return error ? error : driver_register(&node_driver);
> }
> postcore_initcall(register_node_type);
>
-
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