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Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:01:44 +0200
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] SOUND: riptide.c proper handling of pci_register_driver for joystick

At Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:45:40 +0530,
Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 11:10 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:57:30 +0530,
> > Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> > > 
> > > I am getting this compiler warning in linus tree :
> > > 
> > >   CC [M]  sound/pci/riptide/riptide.o
> > > sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c: In function ‘alsa_card_riptide_init’:
> > > sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c:2200: warning: ignoring return value of ‘__pci_register_driver’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> > > 
> > > This fixes the warning in my case, hope this will be helpful :
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> > > index 235a71e..fd8a552 100644
> > > --- a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> > > +++ b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> > > @@ -2197,9 +2197,9 @@ static int __init alsa_card_riptide_init(void)
> > >  	if (err < 0)
> > >  		return err;
> > >  #if defined(SUPPORT_JOYSTICK)
> > > -	pci_register_driver(&joystick_driver);
> > > +	err = pci_register_driver(&joystick_driver);
> > >  #endif
> > > -	return 0;
> > > +	return err;
> > 
> > In that case, the formerly registered audio driver should be
> > unregistered before returning the error from the probe callback.
> > Could you fix that?
> > 
> 
> [PATCH] SOUND: riptide.c proper handling of pci_register_driver for joystick
> 
> We need to check returning error for pci_register_driver(&joystick_driver)
> 
> On failure, we should unregister formerly registered audio drivers
> 
> This also fixed the compiler warning :
> 
>   CC [M]  sound/pci/riptide/riptide.o
>  sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c: In function ‘alsa_card_riptide_init’:
>  sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c:2200: warning: ignoring return value of ‘__pci_register_driver’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>

Applied now.  Thanks.


Takashi

> ---
>  sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c |    7 +++++--
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> index 235a71e..b5ca02e 100644
> --- a/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> +++ b/sound/pci/riptide/riptide.c
> @@ -2197,9 +2197,12 @@ static int __init alsa_card_riptide_init(void)
>  	if (err < 0)
>  		return err;
>  #if defined(SUPPORT_JOYSTICK)
> -	pci_register_driver(&joystick_driver);
> +	err = pci_register_driver(&joystick_driver);
> +	/* On failure unregister formerly registered audio driver */
> +	if (err < 0)
> +		pci_unregister_driver(&driver);
>  #endif
> -	return 0;
> +	return err;
>  }
>  
>  static void __exit alsa_card_riptide_exit(void)
> -- 
> 1.6.0.6
> 
> 
> 
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