[PATCH] exit early in floppy_init when no floppy exists

[Olaf Hering]

modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg:

Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M

The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late,
when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized.
check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks
the device-tree looking for a floppy node.


Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>

---

Can this go into 2.6.18 please? Our installer parses dmesg to find
floppy devices. Dont ask....




 drivers/block/floppy.c |   12 +++++-------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/block/floppy.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.18-rc4.orig/drivers/block/floppy.c
+++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/block/floppy.c
@@ -4177,6 +4177,11 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void)
 	int i, unit, drive;
 	int err, dr;
 
+#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE)
+	if (check_legacy_ioport(FDC1))
+		return -ENODEV;
+#endif
+
 	raw_cmd = NULL;
 
 	for (dr = 0; dr < N_DRIVE; dr++) {
@@ -4234,13 +4239,6 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void)
 	}
 
 	use_virtual_dma = can_use_virtual_dma & 1;
-#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE)
-	if (check_legacy_ioport(FDC1)) {
-		del_timer(&fd_timeout);
-		err = -ENODEV;
-		goto out_unreg_region;
-	}
-#endif
 	fdc_state[0].address = FDC1;
 	if (fdc_state[0].address == -1) {
 		del_timer(&fd_timeout);
-
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