Re: [PATCH] drm/mgag200: Fix calling drm_fb_helper_fini() twice

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/17/2015 2:04 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >
> >* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >
> >
> >>So this patch was whitespace damaged - I applied it by hand and made the commit
> >
> >>below. This has solved the crash, thanks Archit!
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> >
> >
> >Spoke too soon - the attached (allyesconfig-ish) config still crashes, first there
> >
> >are a handful of kobject debug warnings, then:
> 
> The error handling in the driver is bad. The main problem is that
> the driver_load op calls mgag200_driver_unload if anything fails,
> which doesn't work well if driver_load fails mid way.
mgag200_driver_unload is trying to unload everything evenif that has not
succeeded in initializing. Here the ttm failed to initialize but
still mgag200_mm_fini was called to unload it.

regards
sudip
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