-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. --------------------- From: Jeff Garzik commit 2551a13e61d3c3df6c2da6de5a3ece78e6d67111 Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik Acked-by: Mark Salyzyn Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: James Bottomley FUJITA Tomonori notes: It didn't intend to fix a critical bug, however, it turned out that it does. Without this patch, the ips driver in 2.6.23 and 2.6.24 doesn't work at all. You can find the more details at the following thread: http://marc.info/?t=120293911900023&r=1&w=2 Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/scsi/ips.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/scsi/ips.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ips.c @@ -6842,13 +6842,10 @@ ips_register_scsi(int index) if (request_irq(ha->irq, do_ipsintr, IRQF_SHARED, ips_name, ha)) { IPS_PRINTK(KERN_WARNING, ha->pcidev, "Unable to install interrupt handler\n"); - scsi_host_put(sh); - return -1; + goto err_out_sh; } kfree(oldha); - ips_sh[index] = sh; - ips_ha[index] = ha; /* Store away needed values for later use */ sh->io_port = ha->io_addr; @@ -6867,10 +6864,21 @@ ips_register_scsi(int index) sh->max_channel = ha->nbus - 1; sh->can_queue = ha->max_cmds - 1; - scsi_add_host(sh, NULL); + if (scsi_add_host(sh, &ha->pcidev->dev)) + goto err_out; + + ips_sh[index] = sh; + ips_ha[index] = ha; + scsi_scan_host(sh); return 0; + +err_out: + free_irq(ha->pcidev->irq, ha); +err_out_sh: + scsi_host_put(sh); + return -1; } /*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/