[PATCH 2/2] tc1100-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled

From: Carlos Corbacho
Date: Mon Feb 11 2008 - 14:59:58 EST


tc1100-wmi - Fail gracefully if ACPI is disabled

From: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

WMI drivers, like their ACPI counterparts, should also check if ACPI is
disabled or not, and bail out if so, otherwise we cause a crash.

Spotted by Ingo Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
CC: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c b/drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c
index f25e4c9..cb8f79f 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/tc1100-wmi.c
@@ -263,6 +263,9 @@ static int __init tc1100_init(void)
{
int result = 0;

+ if (acpi_disabled)
+ return -ENODEV;
+
if (!wmi_has_guid(GUID))
return -ENODEV;

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