linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Make sure drivers were registered before unregistering them

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:47:01 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	minyard@....org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipmi: Make sure drivers were registered before
	unregistering them

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:36:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:53:26 -0400
> Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The ipmi code will never register a PCI or Open Firmware driver if
> > a hardcoded device is provided by the user.
> 
> How does a user "provide a hardcoded device"?

By providing device addresses via the module parameters. This is the 
terminology used in the driver.

> I tried to work out from the above whether we want to backport this fix
> into -stable and failed.  And I reckon that if I can't work this out
> from a changelog, the changelog is inadequate.

We don't. The change that caused this bug was merged post-.34.

> >  #ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
> > @@ -3330,6 +3338,7 @@ static __devinit int init_ipmi_si(void)
> >  
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_OF
> >  	of_register_platform_driver(&ipmi_of_platform_driver);
> > +	of_registered = 1;
> 
> I assume the code will still oops if of_register_platform_driver() failed.

Indeed. I should fix that.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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