3.2.43-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@intel.com>

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.kicin...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schm...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: no debugfs support]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk>
---
 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
@@ -8003,12 +8003,15 @@ static int __init ixgbe_init_module(void
        pr_info("%s - version %s\n", ixgbe_driver_string, ixgbe_driver_version);
        pr_info("%s\n", ixgbe_copyright);
 
+       ret = pci_register_driver(&ixgbe_driver);
+       if (ret)
+               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);

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