On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:29 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:00:47PM +0000, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > From: Adrian McMenamin
> >
> > This patch fixes the regression noted here:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/1/26/189 as well as whitespace issues in the
> > previous commit of this driver and the memory leaks noted here:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/143 (as well as one or two other minor
> > cleanups).
>
> Which portion of the patch fixes the kobject WARN_ON()?
+ if (mdev->registered == 0) {
+ retval = device_register(&mdev->dev);
+ if (retval) {
+ printk(KERN_INFO
+ "Maple bus: Attempt to register device"
+ " (%x, %x) failed.\n",
+ mdev->port, mdev->unit);
+ maple_free_dev(mdev);
+ mdev = NULL;
+ return;
+ }
+ mdev->registered = 1;
+ }
}
Specifically the check on mdev->registered
Unfortunately the previous commit was completely corrupted by whitespace
everywhere so the patch essentially covers the whole dirver (I had a
choice of submitting broken code with whitespace removed or working code
with whitespace removed)
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