Re: [PATCH] RTC: mark if rtc-cmos drivers were successfully registered.

[Kay Sievers]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 22:19, Andrew Morton<akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Â5 Jul 2009 01:07:59 -0300
> Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> rtc-cmos has two drivers, one PNP and one platform. When PNP has not
>> succeeded probing, platform is registered. However, it tries to
>> unregister both drivers unconditionally, instead of only unregistering
>> those that were successfully registered. Fix that with a boolean
>> variable for each driver indicating whether registering was successful.

> This came up a few weeks ago - the kernel was actually crashing deep
> down in the driver core, when a not-registered device was unregistered.
>
> I believe Kay was planning on making the driver core more robust, so
> that crash shouldn't be happening any more. ÂKay, can you please confirm
> that thsi got fixed?

This is supposed to fix it:
  http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5c8563d773c0e9f0ac2a552e84806decd98ce732

Thanks,
Kay
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