Hi Greg,

The appended patch fixes a bug in the error path of device_add().

Please accept it for 2.6.25.

Thanks,
Rafael

---
From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

Since device_pm_remove(dev) calls dpm_sysfs_remove(dev), it's
incorrect to call the latter after the former in the device_add()
error path.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
---
 drivers/base/core.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6/drivers/base/core.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/base/core.c
+++ linux-2.6/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -839,7 +839,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev)
 	return error;
  BusError:
 	device_pm_remove(dev);
-	dpm_sysfs_remove(dev);
  PMError:
 	if (dev->bus)
 		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
--
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