[PATCH] dvb-core: Handle failures to create devices

[Simon Arlott]

dvb-core is not started early enough when device drivers that use dvb are 
compiled in so device_register_device fails (silently) since dvb_class is 
NULL, this runs dvb_init using subsys_initclass instead of module_init.

dvb_register_device will now check the return value of class_device_create.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c |   11 +++++++++--
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
index 7683983..b859a60 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev,
	struct dvb_device *dvbdev;
	struct file_operations *dvbdevfops;

+	struct class_device *clsdev;
	int id;

	mutex_lock(&dvbdev_register_lock);
@@ -242,9 +243,15 @@ int dvb_register_device(struct dvb_adapter *adap, struct dvb_device **pdvbdev,

	mutex_unlock(&dvbdev_register_lock);

-	class_device_create(dvb_class, NULL, MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id)),
+	clsdev = class_device_create(dvb_class, NULL, MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id)),
			    adap->device, "dvb%d.%s%d", adap->num, dnames[type], id);

+	if (IS_ERR(clsdev)) {
+		printk("%s: failed to create device dvb%d.%s%d (%ld)\n", __FUNCTION__,
+			adap->num, dnames[type], id, PTR_ERR(clsdev));
+		return PTR_ERR(clsdev);
+	}
+
	dprintk("DVB: register adapter%d/%s%d @ minor: %i (0x%02x)\n",
		adap->num, dnames[type], id, nums2minor(adap->num, type, id),
		nums2minor(adap->num, type, id));
@@ -431,7 +438,7 @@ static void __exit exit_dvbdev(void)
	unregister_chrdev_region(MKDEV(DVB_MAJOR, 0), MAX_DVB_MINORS);
}

-module_init(init_dvbdev);
+subsys_initcall(init_dvbdev);
module_exit(exit_dvbdev);

MODULE_DESCRIPTION("DVB Core Driver");
--
1.5.0.1

--
Simon Arlott
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