From 9751cb721ef650729e981c7b39abb7676cd646e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Chiang Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:40 -0600 Subject: [PATCH 1/1] ACPI: dock: dock_add - hoist up platform_device_register_simple() Move the call to platform_device_register_simple so that we do it before allocating and initializing our struct dock_station. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang Acked-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 16 +++++++--------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c index 0a12218..3bd8982 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -948,11 +948,18 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle) struct dock_station *dock_station; struct platform_device *dock_device; + dock_device = + platform_device_register_simple("dock", + dock_station_count, NULL, 0); + if (IS_ERR(dock_device)) + return PTR_ERR(dock_device); + /* allocate & initialize the dock_station private data */ dock_station = kzalloc(sizeof(*dock_station), GFP_KERNEL); if (!dock_station) return -ENOMEM; dock_station->handle = handle; + dock_station->dock_device = dock_device; dock_station->last_dock_time = jiffies - HZ; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dock_station->dependent_devices); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dock_station->hotplug_devices); @@ -961,15 +968,6 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle) mutex_init(&dock_station->hp_lock); ATOMIC_INIT_NOTIFIER_HEAD(&dock_notifier_list); - /* initialize platform device stuff */ - dock_station->dock_device = - platform_device_register_simple("dock", - dock_station_count, NULL, 0); - dock_device = dock_station->dock_device; - if (IS_ERR(dock_device)) { - ret = PTR_ERR(dock_device); - goto out; - } platform_device_add_data(dock_device, &dock_station, sizeof(struct dock_station *)); -- 1.8.2.3