linux-kernel - [PATCH] ACPI: ibm-acpi: allow module to load when acpi notifiers can't be set

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Date:	Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:51:14 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
	Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>,
	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, kristen.c.accardi@...el.com
Subject: [PATCH] ACPI: ibm-acpi: allow module to load when acpi notifiers can't be set

This patch allows for ibm-acpi to coexist (with diminished functionality) with
other drivers like ACPI_BAY.  ibm-acpi will simply disable the functions it is
not able to register ACPI notifiers for.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
Cc: Chris Wedgwood <cw@...f.org>
Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>
---

 Len, you can pull this patch from:
 git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
 branch for-upstream/acpi-release

 Please send it to Linus for merge in 2.6.21.

 It will clash with the patches in acpi-test that are waiting for 2.6.22.
 I will rediff those, and send you a pull request when this patch
 gets accepted in mainline.

 drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c |   17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c b/drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c
index 3690136..f9f36f9 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c
@@ -2507,7 +2507,7 @@ static int __init setup_notify(struct ibm_struct *ibm)
 	ret = acpi_bus_get_device(*ibm->handle, &ibm->device);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		printk(IBM_ERR "%s device not present\n", ibm->name);
-		return 0;
+		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 
 	acpi_driver_data(ibm->device) = ibm;
@@ -2516,8 +2516,13 @@ static int __init setup_notify(struct ibm_struct *ibm)
 	status = acpi_install_notify_handler(*ibm->handle, ibm->type,
 					     dispatch_notify, ibm);
 	if (ACPI_FAILURE(status)) {
-		printk(IBM_ERR "acpi_install_notify_handler(%s) failed: %d\n",
-		       ibm->name, status);
+		if (status == AE_ALREADY_EXISTS) {
+			printk(IBM_NOTICE "another device driver is already handling %s events\n",
+				ibm->name);
+		} else {
+			printk(IBM_ERR "acpi_install_notify_handler(%s) failed: %d\n",
+				ibm->name, status);
+		}
 		return -ENODEV;
 	}
 	ibm->notify_installed = 1;
@@ -2594,6 +2599,12 @@ static int __init ibm_init(struct ibm_struct *ibm)
 
 	if (ibm->notify) {
 		ret = setup_notify(ibm);
+		if (ret == -ENODEV) {
+			printk(IBM_NOTICE "disabling subdriver %s\n",
+				ibm->name);
+			ibm_exit(ibm);
+			return 0;
+		}
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;
 	}
-- 
1.5.0.3


-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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