+ acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch added to -mm tree

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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

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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

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