Since the misc device is registered only in the pci probe function
it has to be also unregistered in the counterpart pci remove function
and not in the module exit function.
In case of probe failure the driver was oopsing in module exit function.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 88e5953..a5a17e7 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,8 @@ static void __devexit mei_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev)
pci_release_regions(pdev);
pci_disable_device(pdev);
+
+ misc_deregister(&mei_misc_device);
}
#ifdef CONFIG_PM
static int mei_pci_suspend(struct device *device)
@@ -1216,7 +1218,6 @@ module_init(mei_init_module);
*/
static void __exit mei_exit_module(void)
{
- misc_deregister(&mei_misc_device);
pci_unregister_driver(&mei_driver);
pr_debug("unloaded successfully.\n");
--
1.7.4.4
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