The patch titled acpi/processor: prevent loading module on failures has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: acpi/processor: prevent loading module on failures From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Make loading processor.ko fail when an error happens. Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures drivers/acpi/processor_core.c --- a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c~acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures +++ a/drivers/acpi/processor_core.c @@ -901,13 +901,13 @@ static int __init acpi_processor_init(vo acpi_processor_dir = proc_mkdir(ACPI_PROCESSOR_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); if (!acpi_processor_dir) - return 0; + return -ENOMEM; acpi_processor_dir->owner = THIS_MODULE; result = acpi_bus_register_driver(&acpi_processor_driver); if (result < 0) { remove_proc_entry(ACPI_PROCESSOR_CLASS, acpi_root_dir); - return 0; + return result; } acpi_processor_install_hotplug_notify(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are dell_rbu-fix-error-check.patch acpi-fix-single-linked-list-manipulation.patch acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch drm-fix-return-value-check.patch git-input.patch input-make-serio_register_driver-return-error.patch input-check-serio_register_driver-error.patch input-check-whether-serio-dirver-registration-is-completed.patch input-change-to-gfp_kernel-for-serio_register_driver-event-allocation.patch git-mtd.patch gss_spkm3-fix-error-handling-in-module-init.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module-fix.patch git-pcmcia.patch git-watchdog.patch paride-return-proper-error-code.patch bit-revese-library.patch crc32-replace-bitreverse-by-bitrev32.patch video-use-bitrev8.patch net-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-hisax-use-bitrev8.patch atm-ambassador-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-gigaset-use-bitrev8.patch isdn-fix-missing-unregister_capi_driver.patch fault-injection-documentation-and-scripts.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tidy.patch fault-injection-capabilities-infrastructure-tweaks.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc.patch fault-injection-capability-for-kmalloc-failslab-remove-__gfp_highmem-filtering.patch fault-injection-capability-for-alloc_pages.patch fault-injection-capability-for-disk-io.patch fault-injection-process-filtering-for-fault-injection-capabilities.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup.patch fault-injection-stacktrace-filtering-kconfig-fix.patch fault-injection-Kconfig-cleanup-config_fault_injection-help-text.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html