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| author | Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> | 2005-05-18 10:42:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2005-06-21 00:15:31 +0200 |
| commit | ca2b94ba12f3c36fd3d6ed9d38b3798d4dad0d8b (patch) | |
| tree | d9b85e0f423d1cd0a9ad1c72cec7464bcf50c126 /drivers/base/dd.c | |
| parent | [PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files (diff) | |
| download | linux-ca2b94ba12f3c36fd3d6ed9d38b3798d4dad0d8b.tar.xz linux-ca2b94ba12f3c36fd3d6ed9d38b3798d4dad0d8b.zip | |
[PATCH] driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_device
The error handling in bus_add_device() and device_attach() is simply
non-existing. This patch propagates any error from device_attach to
the upper layers to allow for a proper recovery.
From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/dd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/dd.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c index eab2030c506d..6db3a789c54f 100644 --- a/drivers/base/dd.c +++ b/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device_driver * drv, void * data) * driver_probe_device() for each pair. If a compatible * pair is found, break out and return. * - * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; 0 otherwise. + * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; + * 0 if no matching device was found; error code otherwise. */ int device_attach(struct device * dev) { |