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2006-09-29[PATCH] Fix locking for tty drivers when doing urgent charactersAlan Cox
If you send a priority character (as is done for flow control) then the tty driver can either have its own method for "jumping the queue" or the characrer can be queued normally. In the latter case we call the write method but without the atomic_write_lock taken elsewhere. Make this consistent. Note that the send_xchar method if implemented remains outside of the lock as it can jump ahead of a current write so must not be locked out by it. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] specialix - remove private speed decodingAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] istallion: Remove private baud rate decoding, which is also broken ↵Alan Cox
in this case on some platforms Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] generic_serial: remove private decoding of baud rate bitsAlan Cox
The driver has no business doing this work itself any more and hasn't for some years. When the new speed stuff goes in this will break entirely so fix it up ready. Also remove a #if 0 around a comment.... Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] rate limiting for the ldisc open failure messagesAkinobu Mita
This patch limits the messages when ldisc open faulures happen. It happens under memory pressure. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] mem driver: fix conditional on isa i/o supportGeoff Levand
This change corrects the logic on the preprocessor conditionals that include support for ISA port i/o (/dev/ioports) into the mem character driver. This fixes the following error when building for powerpc platforms with CONFIG_PCI=n. drivers/built-in.o: undefined reference to `pci_io_base' Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <lins@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty: Fix bits and note more bits to fixAlan Cox
If your driver implements "break on" and "break off" this ensures you won't get multiple overlapping requests or requests in parallel. If your driver has its own break handling then its still your problem as the driver author. Break is also now serialized against writes from user space properly but no new guarantees are made driver level about writes from the line discipline itself (eg flow control or echo) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] solaris emulation: incorrect tty lockingAlan Cox
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [akpm@osdl.org: warning fix] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Return better error codes if drivers/char/raw.c module init failsRolf Eike Beer
Currently this module just returns 1 if anything on module init fails. Store the error code of the different function calls and return their error on problems. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ Fixed to not unregister twice on error ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty: make termios_sem a mutexArjan van de Ven
[akpm@osdl.org: fix] Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty: lock ticogwinszAlan Cox
Now we lock the set ioctl its trivial to lock the get one so the data copied is consistent. At the moment we have the BKL here but this removes the need for it and is a step in the right direction Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty: trivial kzalloc opportunityAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Fix memory leak in vc_resize/vc_allocateCatalin Marinas
Memory leaks can happen in the vc_resize() function in drivers/char/vt.c because of the vc->vc_screenbuf variable overriding in vc_allocate(). The kmemleak reported trace is as follows: <__kmalloc> <vc_resize> <fbcon_init> <visual_init> <vc_allocate> <con_open> <tty_open> <chrdev_open> This patch no longer allocates a screen buffer in vc_allocate() if it was already allocated by vc_resize(). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] Remove old drivers/char/s3c2410_rtc.cBen Dooks
This can now be removed, since there is now a drivers/rtc/rtc-s3c.c driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] pidspace: is_init()Sukadev Bhattiprolu
This is an updated version of Eric Biederman's is_init() patch. (http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/2/6/280). It applies cleanly to 2.6.18-rc3 and replaces a few more instances of ->pid == 1 with is_init(). Further, is_init() checks pid and thus removes dependency on Eric's other patches for now. Eric's original description: There are a lot of places in the kernel where we test for init because we give it special properties. Most significantly init must not die. This results in code all over the kernel test ->pid == 1. Introduce is_init to capture this case. With multiple pid spaces for all of the cases affected we are looking for only the first process on the system, not some other process that has pid == 1. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: <lxc-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty locking on resizeAlan Cox
The current kernel serializes console resizes but does not serialize the resize against the tty structure updates. This means that while two parallel resizes cannot mess up the console you can get incorrect results reported. Secondly while doing this I added vc_lock_resize() to lock and resize the console. This leaves all knowledge of the console_sem in the vt/console driver and kicks it out of the tty layer, which is good Thirdly while doing this I decided I couldn't stand "disallocate" any longer so I switched it to "deallocate". Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] console utf-8 mode fixesAdam Tlalka
Fix utf-8 mode so alternate charset modes always work according to control sequences interpreted in do_con_trol function preserving backward US-ASCII and VT100 semigraphics compatibility. Malformed utf-8 sequences are represented as sequences of replacement glyphs,original codes or '?' as a last resort. unicode-xterm, gnome-terminal, kconsole and other terminal emulators in utf-8 mode respect acsc, enacs, rmacs sequences. Also I found that some important system programs (from Debian distro) uses acsc in utf-8 mode - dselect, aptitude, w3m for example. Signed-off-by: Adam Tlalka <atlka@pg.gda.pl> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] tty_io.c: keep davej saneAlexey Dobriyan
Just comment and next "while" look _very_ wrong. Place { correctly to hint unsuspecting ones that it's the end of the loop actually. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] There is no devfs, there has never been a devfs, we have always been ↵Alan Cox
at war with... Jon Smirl noted a couple of tty driver functions now are quite misleadingly named with the death of devfs. A quick grep found another case in the lp driver. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] fix Intel RNG detectionJan Beulich
Previously, since determination whether there was an Intel random number generator was based on a single bit, on systems with a matching bridge device but without a firmware hub, there was a 50% chance that the code would incorrectly decide that the system had an RNG. This patch adds detection of the firmware hub to better qualify the existence of an RNG. There is one issue with the patch: I was unable to determine the LPC equivalent for the PCI bridge 8086:2430 (since the old code didn't care about which of the many devices provided by the ICH/ESB it was chose to use the PCI bridge device, but the FWH settings live in the LPC device, so the device list needed to be changed). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] OMAP: Add Watchdog driver supportKomal Shah
Add Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP1/2 (http://www.ti.com/omap) based processors, like OMAP1610/1710/242x. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Cc: <gdavis@mvista.com> Cc: "Komal Shah" <komal_shah802003@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] scx200_gpio export cleanupsChris Boot
Use EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for new symbols, and declare the struct in the header file for access by other modules. Signed-off-by: Chris Boot <bootc@bootc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c: remove unused static functionsAdrian Bunk
drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c:192: warning: #pc8736x_gpio_set_high# defined but not used drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c:197: warning: #pc8736x_gpio_set_low# defined but not used Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] drivers/char/scx200_gpio.c: make code staticJim Cromie
This patch makes a needlessly global variable static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-29[PATCH] remove unnecessary barrier in rtc_get_rtc_timeSteven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (108 commits) sh: Fix occasional flush_cache_4096() stack corruption. sh: Calculate shm alignment at runtime. sh: dma-mapping compile fixes. sh: Initial vsyscall page support. sh: Clean up PAGE_SIZE definition for assembly use. sh: Selective flush_cache_mm() flushing. sh: More intelligent entry_mask/way_size calculation. sh: Support for L2 cache on newer SH-4A CPUs. sh: Update kexec support for API changes. sh: Optimized readsl()/writesl() support. sh: Report movli.l/movco.l capabilities. sh: CPU flags in AT_HWCAP in ELF auxvt. sh: Add support for 4K stacks. sh: Enable /proc/kcore support. sh: stack debugging support. sh: select CONFIG_EMBEDDED. sh: machvec rework. sh: Solution Engine SH7343 board support. sh: SH7710VoIPGW board support. sh: Enable verbose BUG() support. ...
2006-09-27[PATCH] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmemDavid Howells
Set the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to permit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities under MMU conditions. Make the BDI used by these available to all directly mappable character devices. Also comment the capabilities for /dev/zero. [akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions] Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27[PATCH] mspec driverJes Sorensen
Implement the special memory driver (mspec) based on the do_no_pfn approach. The driver is currently used only on SN2 hardware with special fetchop support but could be beneficial on other architectures using the uncached mode. Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-27watchdog: Add a simple mmap() stub for shwdt.Paul Mundt
In some applications people have expressed a need for an mmap() method, so we implement a simple stub for this that maps back a page with the counter in it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27sh: Kill off the rest of the legacy rtc mess.Paul Mundt
With the new RTC class driver, we can get rid of most of the old left over cruft. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-27sh: Various cosmetic cleanups.Paul Mundt
We had quite a bit of whitespace damage, clean most of it up.. Signed-off-by: Stuart Menefy <stuart.menefy@st.com> Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno <a.othieno@bluewin.ch> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2006-09-26[PATCH] Don't print virtual address in HPET initializationAndi Kleen
virtual addresses don't belong into kernel logs for non debugging Cc: clemens@ladisch.de Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-25[PATCH] rtc: lockdep fix/workaroundPeter Zijlstra
BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1816/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted) [<c04051ee>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x171 [<c0405802>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c040591b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043abee>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa2/0x11e [<c06143c3>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x22/0x26 [<c0541540>] rtc_get_rtc_time+0x32/0x176 [<c0419ba4>] hpet_rtc_interrupt+0x92/0x14d [<c0450f94>] handle_IRQ_event+0x20/0x4d [<c0451055>] __do_IRQ+0x94/0xef [<c040678d>] do_IRQ+0x9e/0xbd [<c0404a49>] common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c DWARF2 unwinder stuck at common_interrupt+0x25/0x2c Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-23[PATCH] briq_panel: read() and write() get __user pointers, damnitAl Viro
annotated, fixed a roothole in ->write(). Dereferencing user-supplied pointer is a Bad Idea(tm)... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-23[PATCH] more fallout from get_property returning pointer to constAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgartLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/agpgart: [AGPGART] Rework AGPv3 modesetting fallback. [AGPGART] Add suspend callback for i965 [AGPGART] Fix number of aperture sizes in 830 gart structs. [AGPGART] Intel 965 Express support. [AGPGART] agp.h: constify struct agp_bridge_data::version [AGPGART] const'ify VIA AGP PCI table. [AGPGART] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/char/agp/intel-agp.c [AGPGART] CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/char/agp/efficeon-agp.c [AGPGART] Const'ify the agpgart driver version. [AGPGART] remove private page protection map
2006-09-22[PATCH] memcpy_fromio() missing in istallionAl Viro
memcpy() from iomem is a bad thing... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (114 commits) [POWERPC] Fix ohare IDE irq workaround on old powermacs [POWERPC] EEH: Power4 systems sometimes need multiple resets. [POWERPC] Include <asm/mmu.h> in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.h for phys_addr_t. [POWERPC] Demacrofy arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/pci.c [POWERPC] Maple U3 HT - reject inappropriate config space access [POWERPC] Fix IPIC pending register assignments [POWERPC] powerpc: fix building gdb against asm/ptrace.h [POWERPC] Remove DISCONTIGMEM cruft from page.h [POWERPC] Merge iSeries i/o operations with the rest [POWERPC] 40x: Fix debug status register defines [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560 [POWERPC] EEH: support MMIO enable recovery step [POWERPC] EEH: enable MMIO/DMA on frozen slot [POWERPC] EEH: code comment cleanup [POWERPC] EEH: balance pcidev_get/put calls [POWERPC] PPC: Fix xmon stack frame address in backtrace [POWERPC] Add AT_PLATFORM value for Xilinx Virtex-4 FX [POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization [POWERPC] Define of_read_ulong helper [POWERPC] iseries: eliminate a couple of warnings ...
2006-09-16[PATCH] IPMI: fix handling of OEM flagsCorey Minyard
If one of the OEM flags becomes set in the flags from the hardware, the driver could hang if no OEM handler was set. Fix the code to handle this. This was tested by setting the flags by hand after they were fetched. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Ackde-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-16[PATCH] hvc_console suspend fixAndrew Morton
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7152 Cc: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn@model.in.tum.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-16[PATCH] IPMI: Fix oops on ipmi_msghandler removal for non ipmi systemsArnaud Patard
When the ipmi_si module is loaded on a system without any ipmi device, it fails with nodev. It would be fine if all resources were freed. A call to device_unregister() is missing, resulting to a oops when you remove the ipmi_msghandler. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-14Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2006-09-13[POWERPC] Quiet hvc_console console output on failed opensOlof Johansson
No other tty driver will print on the console when the open of it fails. On systems that happen to be configured for both ttyS0 and hvc0 console, this will keep flooding the console output. This is most likely to happen with systems booted between with and without hypervisor from the same filesystem. Let's just remove it. When it's really needed (i.e. when the open fails and someone is trying to debug it), noone will see the output anyway. And init will report the opens failing in due time through the syslog. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-10[AGPGART] Rework AGPv3 modesetting fallback.Dave Jones
Sometimes the logic to handle AGPx8->AGPx4 fallback failed, as can be seen in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=197346 The failures occured if the bridge was in AGPx8 mode, but the user hadn't specified a mode in their X config. We weren't setting the mode to the highest mode capable by the video card+bridge (as we do in the AGPv2 case), which was leading to all kinds of mayhem including us believing that after falling back from AGPx8, that we couldn't do x4 mode (which is disastrous in AGPv3, as those are the only two modes possible). Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-10[AGPGART] Add suspend callback for i965Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-06[AGPGART] Fix number of aperture sizes in 830 gart structs.Dave Jones
Spotted by Eric Anholt. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-06[AGPGART] Intel 965 Express support.Eric Anholt
From: Alan Hourihane <alanh@tungstengraphics.com> From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-05Merge ../linusDave Jones
2006-09-05[AGPGART] agp.h: constify struct agp_bridge_data::versionAlexey Dobriyan
drivers/char/agp/backend.c: In function `agp_backend_initialize': drivers/char/agp/backend.c:141: warning: assignment discards qualifiers from pointer target type Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-09-01[PATCH] IPMI: fix occasional oops on module unloadCorey Minyard
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>