Cleanup means there are no behavior changes. This is a bug fix. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 06:00:01PM +0530, Devendra Naga wrote: > a) if alloc_hdlcdev fails, we are going into the free_regions, > and returning out the err (which is 0 by the prev call), > return -ENOMEM if this function fail. > > b) setup_device also can fail, as it calls around the register_hdlc_dev > which > is again a macro of the register_netdev. > > take the error from the setup_device and return it out in error > condition > > c) request_irq when fails, we are freeing requested mem regions and > disabling > the pci device(?) and returning err which is agian 0 here. > > take the error from request_irq and err path will take care of > returning it. > > as if we return 0 , at the init function, t3e3_init_card, we have a success > case > and if there are two channels we call this function again, having the result > of > it completely unknown. > > This result in having the probe return 0, unloading the driver may (not) cause > ambigous result.
These bugs were there before your patch, but we should also be doing an unregister_hdlc_device() and a free_netdev(). regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
