[patch] Fix error handling in sysfs registration

From: Matthew Dobson (colpatch@us.ibm.com)
Date: Mon Mar 17 2003 - 20:45:26 EST


The cpu, memblk, and node driver/device registration should be a little
more clean in the way it handles registration failures. Or at least
*consistent* amongst the topology elements. Right now, failures are
either silent, obscure, or leave things in an inconsistent state.

Cheers!

-Matt

diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/cpu.c linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/cpu.c
--- linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/cpu.c Tue Mar 4 19:29:15 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/cpu.c Mon Mar 17 14:08:59 2003
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@
 
 int __init cpu_dev_init(void)
 {
- devclass_register(&cpu_devclass);
- return driver_register(&cpu_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&cpu_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&cpu_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&cpu_devclass);
+ return error;
 }
diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/memblk.c linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/memblk.c
--- linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/memblk.c Tue Mar 4 19:29:54 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/memblk.c Mon Mar 17 14:09:42 2003
@@ -47,9 +47,12 @@
 }
 
 
-static int __init register_memblk_type(void)
+int __init register_memblk_type(void)
 {
- int error = devclass_register(&memblk_devclass);
- return error ? error : driver_register(&memblk_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&memblk_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&memblk_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&memblk_devclass);
+ return error;
 }
 postcore_initcall(register_memblk_type);
diff -Nur --exclude-from=/usr/src/.dontdiff linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/node.c linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/node.c
--- linux-2.5.64-vanilla/drivers/base/node.c Tue Mar 4 19:29:00 2003
+++ linux-2.5.64-sysfs_cleanup/drivers/base/node.c Mon Mar 17 14:09:52 2003
@@ -89,9 +89,12 @@
 }
 
 
-static int __init register_node_type(void)
+int __init register_node_type(void)
 {
- int error = devclass_register(&node_devclass);
- return error ? error : driver_register(&node_driver);
+ int error;
+ if (!(error = devclass_register(&node_devclass)))
+ if (error = driver_register(&node_driver))
+ devclass_unregister(&node_devclass);
+ return error;
 }
 postcore_initcall(register_node_type);

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