The patch titled acpi/processor: prevent loading module on failures has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was acpi-processor-prevent-loading-module-on-failures.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 origin.patch audit-fix-kstrdup-error-check.patch gss_spkm3-fix-error-handling-in-module-init.patch git-acpi.patch git-alsa.patch git-drm.patch git-mtd.patch net-use-bitrev8.patch auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch iscsi-fix-crypto_alloc_hash-error-check.patch git-watchdog.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