linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

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Date:	Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:28:39 -0300
From:	"Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@...driva.com.br>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel-list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB Elan FTDI: check for driver registration status

Em Tue, 27 Mar 2007 19:14:05 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> escreveu:

| Pete, Luiz
| 
| what about this one?
| 
| Actually there is just a check for where is error coming from.
| Maybe that is not the best solution but it allows us to reduce
| the calls to 'printk' :)
| 
| P.S. Pete your patch is good but the message about
| worqueue creation fail was to print even if we've
| been faltered on the usb_register procedure.
| 
| ---
| 
|  drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c |   15 +++++++++++----
|  1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
| 
| diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
| index bc3327e..3cd54af 100644
| --- a/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
| +++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ftdi-elan.c
| @@ -2903,7 +2903,7 @@ static struct usb_driver ftdi_elan_driver = {
|  };
|  static int __init ftdi_elan_init(void)
|  {
| -        int result;
| +        int result = 0;
|          printk(KERN_INFO "driver %s built at %s on %s\n", ftdi_elan_driver.name,
|  	       __TIME__, __DATE__);
|          init_MUTEX(&ftdi_module_lock);
| @@ -2918,18 +2918,25 @@ static int __init ftdi_elan_init(void)
|  	if (!respond_queue)
|  		goto err3;
|          result = usb_register(&ftdi_elan_driver);
| -        if (result)
| +        if (result) {
|                  printk(KERN_ERR "usb_register failed. Error number %d\n",
|  		       result);
| +		goto err4;
| +	}
|          return result;
|  
| + err4:
| +	destroy_workqueue(respond_queue);
|   err3:
|  	destroy_workqueue(command_queue);
|   err2:
|  	destroy_workqueue(status_queue);
|   err1:
| -	printk(KERN_ERR "%s couldn't create workqueue\n", ftdi_elan_driver.name);
| -	return -ENOMEM;
| +	if (result == 0) {
| +		result = -ENOMEM;
| +		printk(KERN_ERR "%s couldn't create workqueue\n", ftdi_elan_driver.name);
| +	}
| +	return result;
|  }

 I still the prefer the version I sent you yesterday. :) It
changes the minimal amount of code.

-- 
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino
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