The patch titled driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is driver-core-fixes-device_register-retval-check-in.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> Check the return value of device_register() in platform_bus_init(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/platform.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/base/platform.c~driver-core-fixes-device_register-retval-check-in drivers/base/platform.c --- a/drivers/base/platform.c~driver-core-fixes-device_register-retval-check-in +++ a/drivers/base/platform.c @@ -611,8 +611,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(platform_bus_type); int __init platform_bus_init(void) { - device_register(&platform_bus); - return bus_register(&platform_bus_type); + int error; + + error = device_register(&platform_bus); + if (error) + return error; + error = bus_register(&platform_bus_type); + if (error) + device_unregister(&platform_bus); + return error; } #ifndef ARCH_HAS_DMA_GET_REQUIRED_MASK _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx are driver-core-introduce-device_move-move-a-device.patch driver-core-use-klist_remove-in-device_move.patch driver-core-fixes-make_class_name-retval-checks.patch driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch driver-core-fixes-device_register-retval-check-in.patch driver-core-dont-stop-probing-on-probe-errors.patch driver-core-change-function-call-order-in.patch driver-core-per-subsystem-multithreaded-probing.patch driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it.patch git-s390.patch s390-preparatory-cleanup-in-common-i-o-layer.patch s390-make-the-per-subchannel-lock-dynamic.patch s390-dynamic-subchannel-mapping-of-ccw-devices.patch tty-switch-to-ktermios-sclp-fix.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