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authorSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-07-17 10:39:10 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-07-17 19:40:23 +0200
commita14af325641794d1ce8e676e9c4967342349195c (patch)
tree5f59e8d8b1d224651895e2fdad3172b15415bdd2 /drivers
parentextcon: MAX77693: Add extcon-max77693 driver to support Maxim MAX77693 MUIC d... (diff)
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driver core: don't trigger uevent after failure
Do not send the uevent if driver_add_groups failed. Reported-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/driver.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 1b500d6fcc2e..974e301a1ef0 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -185,9 +185,10 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
if (ret)
return ret;
ret = driver_add_groups(drv, drv->groups);
- if (ret)
+ if (ret) {
bus_remove_driver(drv);
-
+ return ret;
+ }
kobject_uevent(&drv->p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
return ret;