Commit 96f339c6 authored Sep 28, 2005 by Greg Edwards Committed by Tony Luck Oct 04, 2005

[IA64] mbcs_init() should give up unless running on sn2



CONFIG_SGI_MBCS is enabled in generic kernels, but the driver may
oops some other platforms.  Check whether we are running on sn2
and bail out if we are not before doing anything dangerous.

Acked-by: Bruce Losure <blosure@americas.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

parent ed39f731

drivers/char/mbcs.c

+3 −0

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		@@ -830,6 +830,9 @@ static int __init mbcs_init(void)
		{
		int rv;

		if (!ia64_platform_is("sn2"))
		return -ENODEV;

		// Put driver into chrdevs[]. Get major number.
		rv = register_chrdev(mbcs_major, DEVICE_NAME, &mbcs_ops);
		if (rv < 0) {