linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] [mm] More driver core fixes for -mm

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:46:21 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com
Subject: Re: [Patch] [mm] More driver core fixes for -mm

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:08:52 -0700,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> wrote:

> Removing symlinks seems like a good idea.  Leaving them around might cause
> a subsequent driver load to fail due to EEXIST (assuming that the caller
> checks error codes, as if).
> 
> I assume you're referring to error paths here?

Yes, that was my reasoning.

> But I made bus_attach_device() convert the positive return value to zero. 
> See
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18-rc1/2.6.18-rc1-mm2/hot-fixes/drivers-base-check-errors-fix.patch.

Missed that, sorry.

> 
> Is there a reason to propagate this irritating "1" back out of
> bus_attach_device() as well?

Probably not. Nobody cares whether the device was bound to a driver or
not.

-- 
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@...ibm.com
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