The patch titled hwmon: coretemp: enable coretemp device add operation failure has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is hwmon-coretemp-enable-coretemp-device-add-operation-failure.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: hwmon: coretemp: enable coretemp device add operation failure From: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> If one coretemp device can't be added, it should allow subsequent adding operation because every new-added device will create a new sysfs group, not an additional sensor sys entry. Signed-off-by: Chen Gong <gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 17 +++-------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c~hwmon-coretemp-enable-coretemp-device-add-operation-failure drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c --- a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c~hwmon-coretemp-enable-coretemp-device-add-operation-failure +++ a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c @@ -540,12 +540,9 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void) * sensors. We check this bit only, all the early CPUs * without thermal sensors will be filtered out. */ - if (c->cpuid_level >= 6 && (cpuid_eax(0x06) & 0x01)) { - err = coretemp_device_add(i); - if (err) - goto exit_devices_unreg; - - } else { + if (c->cpuid_level >= 6 && (cpuid_eax(0x06) & 0x01)) + coretemp_device_add(i); + else { printk(KERN_INFO DRVNAME ": CPU (model=0x%x)" " has no thermal sensor.\n", c->x86_model); } @@ -560,14 +557,6 @@ static int __init coretemp_init(void) #endif return 0; -exit_devices_unreg: - mutex_lock(&pdev_list_mutex); - list_for_each_entry_safe(p, n, &pdev_list, list) { - platform_device_unregister(p->pdev); - list_del(&p->list); - kfree(p); - } - mutex_unlock(&pdev_list_mutex); exit_driver_unreg: #ifndef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU platform_driver_unregister(&coretemp_driver); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from gong.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch hwmon-coretemp-update-hotplug-condition-check.patch hwmon-coretemp-enable-coretemp-device-add-operation-failure.patch hwmon-coretemp-documentation-update-and-cleanup.patch drivers-hwmon-coretempc-remove-unneeded-ifdef-config_hotplug_cpu.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