[PATCH] tipar oops fix

If compiled into the kernel, parport_register_driver() is called before the
parport driver has been initalised.

This means that it is expected that tp_count is 0 after the
parport_register_driver() call() - tipar's attach function will not be
called until later during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/drivers/char/tipar.c b/drivers/char/tipar.c
index eb2eb3e..079db5a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/char/tipar.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tipar.c
@@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ tipar_init_module(void)
                err = PTR_ERR(tipar_class);
                goto out_chrdev;
        }
-       if (parport_register_driver(&tipar_driver) || tp_count == 0) {
+       if (parport_register_driver(&tipar_driver)) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "tipar: unable to register with parport\n");
                err = -EIO;
                goto out_class;