Patch "Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry" has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
staging-comedi-comedi_fops-avoid-orphaned-proc-entry.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Cheah Kok Cheong <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2016 19:25:52 +0800
Subject: Staging: comedi: comedi_fops: Avoid orphaned proc entry

From: Cheah Kok Cheong <[email protected]>

commit bf279ece37d2a3eaaa9813fcd7a1d8a81eb29c20 upstream.

Move comedi_proc_init to the end to avoid orphaned proc entry if module loading failed.

---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

@@ -2590,9 +2590,6 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void)
 
 	comedi_class->dev_groups = comedi_dev_groups;
 
-	/* XXX requires /proc interface */
-	comedi_proc_init();
-
 	/* create devices files for legacy/manual use */
 	for (i = 0; i < comedi_num_legacy_minors; i++) {
 		struct comedi_device *dev;

@@ -2610,6 +2607,9 @@ static int __init comedi_init(void)
 		mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
 	}
 
+	/* XXX requires /proc interface */
+	comedi_proc_init();
+
 	return 0;
 }
 module_init(comedi_init);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.18/staging-comedi-comedi_fops-avoid-orphaned-proc-entry.patch