This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ixgbe: fix registration order of driver and DCA nofitication
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ixgbe-fix-registration-order-of-driver-and-dca-nofitication.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From f01fc1a82c2ee68726b400fadb156bd623b5f2f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2013 16:50:54 +0000
Subject: ixgbe: fix registration order of driver and DCA nofitication
From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>
commit f01fc1a82c2ee68726b400fadb156bd623b5f2f1 upstream.
ixgbe_notify_dca cannot be called before driver registration
because it expects driver's klist_devices to be allocated and
initialized. While on it make sure debugfs files are removed
when registration fails.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -7858,12 +7858,19 @@ static int __init ixgbe_init_module(void
ixgbe_dbg_init();
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
+ ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
+ if (ret) {
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_FS
+ ixgbe_dbg_exit();
+#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
+ return ret;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_IXGBE_DCA
dca_register_notify(&dca_notifier);
#endif
- ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
- return ret;
+ return 0;
}
module_init(ixgbe_init_module);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/ixgbe-fix-registration-order-of-driver-and-dca-nofitication.patch
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