From: Christian Krafft This patch adds a check for the private driver data to be initialized. The bug showed up, as the caller found a pmi device by it's type. Whereas the pmi driver probes for the type and the name. Since the name was not as the driver expected, it did not initialize. A more relaxed probing will be supplied with an extra patch, too. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/sysdev/pmi.c @@ -279,6 +279,9 @@ void pmi_register_handler(struct of_devi struct pmi_data *data; data = device->dev.driver_data; + if (!data) + return; + spin_lock(&data->handler_spinlock); list_add_tail(&handler->node, &data->handler); spin_unlock(&data->handler_spinlock); @@ -289,10 +292,12 @@ void pmi_unregister_handler(struct of_de struct pmi_handler *handler) { struct pmi_data *data; + data = device->dev.driver_data; - pr_debug("pmi: unregistering handler %p\n", handler); + if (!data) + return; - data = device->dev.driver_data; + pr_debug("pmi: unregistering handler %p\n", handler); spin_lock(&data->handler_spinlock); list_del(&handler->node); --