commit e818e2bd96d1280db79c9383b07013b42515eded
Author: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Date:   Sun Aug 12 07:20:27 2007 +0900

    Subject: sony-laptop: call sonypi_compat_init earlier
    Patch-mainline: 2.6.23
    References: 350984
    
    sony-laptop: call sonypi_compat_init earlier
    
    sonypi_compat uses a kfifo that needs to be present before _SRS is
    called to be able to cope with the IRQs triggered when setting
    resources.
    
    Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
    Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
    Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c b/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
index ab2ca63..6d2d64f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c
@@ -2056,8 +2056,6 @@ static int sony_pic_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type)
 	struct sony_pic_ioport *io, *tmp_io;
 	struct sony_pic_irq *irq, *tmp_irq;
 
-	sonypi_compat_exit();
-
 	if (sony_pic_disable(device)) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR DRV_PFX "Couldn't disable device.\n");
 		return -ENXIO;
@@ -2067,6 +2065,8 @@ static int sony_pic_remove(struct acpi_device *device, int type)
 	release_region(spic_dev.cur_ioport->io.minimum,
 			spic_dev.cur_ioport->io.address_length);
 
+	sonypi_compat_exit();
+
 	sony_laptop_remove_input();
 
 	/* pf attrs */
@@ -2132,6 +2132,9 @@ static int sony_pic_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 		goto err_free_resources;
 	}
 
+	if (sonypi_compat_init())
+		goto err_remove_input;
+
 	/* request io port */
 	list_for_each_entry(io, &spic_dev.ioports, list) {
 		if (request_region(io->io.minimum, io->io.address_length,
@@ -2146,7 +2149,7 @@ static int sony_pic_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 	if (!spic_dev.cur_ioport) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR DRV_PFX "Failed to request_region.\n");
 		result = -ENODEV;
-		goto err_remove_input;
+		goto err_remove_compat;
 	}
 
 	/* request IRQ */
@@ -2186,9 +2189,6 @@ static int sony_pic_add(struct acpi_device *device)
 	if (result)
 		goto err_remove_pf;
 
-	if (sonypi_compat_init())
-		goto err_remove_pf;
-
 	return 0;
 
 err_remove_pf:
@@ -2204,6 +2204,9 @@ err_release_region:
 	release_region(spic_dev.cur_ioport->io.minimum,
 			spic_dev.cur_ioport->io.address_length);
 
+err_remove_compat:
+	sonypi_compat_exit();
+
 err_remove_input:
 	sony_laptop_remove_input();