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

From: Len Brown
Date: Thu Feb 14 2008 - 01:12:29 EST


applied.

thanks,
-len

On Monday 11 February 2008 14:55, Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> 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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