From: <pazke@orbita1.ru>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] pc keyboard driver minor cleanup
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 15:59:16 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010613155916.A22257@orbita1.ru> (raw)
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Hi,
added misc_register() return value checking and removed panic() in case of
kmalloc failure (IMHO it's possible to live without PS/2 mouse :)
Best regards.
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Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer
pazke@orbita1.ru | PGP key: http://www.orbita1.ru/~pazke/AndreyPanin.asc
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diff -u -X /usr/dontdiff /linux.vanilla/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c /linux/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c
--- /linux.vanilla/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c Tue Jun 12 10:51:25 2001
+++ /linux/drivers/char/pc_keyb.c Tue Jun 12 13:51:26 2001
@@ -1011,13 +1011,20 @@
static int __init psaux_init(void)
{
+ int retval;
+
if (!detect_auxiliary_port())
return -EIO;
- misc_register(&psaux_mouse);
+ if ((retval = misc_register(&psaux_mouse)))
+ return retval;
+
queue = (struct aux_queue *) kmalloc(sizeof(*queue), GFP_KERNEL);
- if (queue == NULL)
- panic("psaux_init(): out of memory");
+ if (queue == NULL) {
+ printk(KERN_ERR "psaux_init(): out of memory\n");
+ misc_deregister(&psaux_mouse);
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ }
memset(queue, 0, sizeof(*queue));
queue->head = queue->tail = 0;
init_waitqueue_head(&queue->proc_list);
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