[PATCH 10/72] ixgbe: fix registration order of driver and DCA nofitication
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Apr 18 09:15:55 UTC 2013
3.5.7.11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski at intel.com>
commit f01fc1a82c2ee68726b400fadb156bd623b5f2f1 upstream.
ixgbe_notify_dca cannot be called before driver registration
because it expects driver's klist_devices to be allocated and
initialized. While on it make sure debugfs files are removed
when registration fails.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski at intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
[ luis: backported to 3.5: removed debugfs code ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 7c0878f..ab8d882 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -7662,12 +7662,15 @@ static int __init ixgbe_init_module(void)
pr_info("%s - version %s\n", ixgbe_driver_string, ixgbe_driver_version);
pr_info("%s\n", ixgbe_copyright);
+ ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA
dca_register_notify(&dca_notifier);
#endif
- ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
module_init(ixgbe_init_module);
--
1.8.1.2
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