From: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> Initialize the current brightness if the driver registration was successful and unregister the driver in the error exit path. Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff -puN drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c~sony_acpi-fix-sony_acpi-backlight-registration-and-unregistration drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c --- a/drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c~sony_acpi-fix-sony_acpi-backlight-registration-and-unregistration +++ a/drivers/acpi/sony_acpi.c @@ -354,9 +354,14 @@ static int sony_acpi_add(struct acpi_dev if (ACPI_SUCCESS(acpi_get_handle(sony_acpi_handle, "GBRT", &handle))) { sony_backlight_device = backlight_device_register("sony", NULL, NULL, &sony_backlight_properties); + if (IS_ERR(sony_backlight_device)) { printk(LOG_PFX "unable to register backlight device\n"); + sony_backlight_device = NULL; } + else + sony_backlight_properties.brightness = + sony_backlight_get_brightness(sony_backlight_device); } for (item = sony_acpi_values; item->name; ++item) { @@ -400,6 +405,9 @@ static int sony_acpi_add(struct acpi_dev return 0; outproc: + if (sony_backlight_device) + backlight_device_unregister(sony_backlight_device); + for (item = sony_acpi_values; item->name; ++item) if (item->proc) remove_proc_entry(item->name, acpi_device_dir(device)); _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html