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From: olof@lixom•net (Olof Johansson)
To: Akinobu Mita <mita@fixstars•com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs•org, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs•org,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb•de>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] cell: cbe_cpufreq cleanup and crash fix
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:32:20 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070427053220.GA7718@lixom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070427052206.GA5486@localhost.localdomain>

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:22:06PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 06:07:54PM -0500, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > @@ -303,6 +303,9 @@ static int __init cbe_cpufreq_init(void)
> >  {
> >  	struct device_node *np;
> >  
> > +	if (!machine_is(cell))
> > +		return 0;
> > +
> 
> Please return -ENODEV to prevent loading module.
> 
> Otherwise it will cause crash when unloading the module
> because of cpufreq_unregister_driver() with unregistered driver.

It won't crash due to the checks in cpufreq_unregister_driver(), but
it's still better to return failure.


Thanks,

-Olof

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-27  5:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-25 20:46 [PATCH] [2.6.22] pasemi: cpufreq driver Olof Johansson
2007-04-25 23:47 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-25 23:57   ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  1:57     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  6:56   ` cbe_cpufreq crashes my machine Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  8:39     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-04-26 23:07     ` [PATCH] cell: cbe_cpufreq cleanup and crash fix Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  5:22       ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Akinobu Mita
2007-04-27  5:32         ` Olof Johansson [this message]
2007-04-27  5:33       ` [PATCH v2] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  7:55         ` Christian Krafft
2007-04-26  5:37 ` [PATCH v2] [2.6.22] pasemi: cpufreq driver Olof Johansson
2007-04-26  8:55   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 16:48     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26 17:11       ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 19:05         ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-26 20:38           ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  0:10             ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-04-26 20:26         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-26 20:43           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-26 10:26   ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-26 20:37     ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  9:40       ` Johannes Berg
2007-04-27 18:09         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-27  5:46   ` [PATCH v3] " Olof Johansson
2007-04-29  2:50     ` Dominik Brodowski
2007-04-29  3:40       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-04-29  4:39         ` Olof Johansson
2007-04-29  4:42       ` Olof Johansson

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