netdev - [patch 18/21] ibmveth: Return -EINVAL on all ->probe errors

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Date:	Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:29:36 -0500
From:	Santiago Leon <santil@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	brking@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Santiago Leon <santil@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>, anton@...ba.org
Subject: [patch 18/21] ibmveth: Return -EINVAL on all ->probe errors

We had a few cases where we returned success on error.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Signed-off-by: Santiago Leon <santil@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

Index: net-next-2.6/drivers/net/ibmveth.c
===================================================================
--- net-next-2.6.orig//drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2010-09-03 22:19:23.000000000 -0500
+++ net-next-2.6/drivers/net/ibmveth.c	2010-09-03 22:19:24.000000000 -0500
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
 							NULL);
 	if (!mac_addr_p) {
 		dev_err(&dev->dev, "Can't find VETH_MAC_ADDR attribute\n");
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	mcastFilterSize_p = (unsigned int *)vio_get_attribute(dev,
@@ -1400,7 +1400,7 @@ static int __devinit ibmveth_probe(struc
 	if (!mcastFilterSize_p) {
 		dev_err(&dev->dev, "Can't find VETH_MCAST_FILTER_SIZE "
 			"attribute\n");
-		return 0;
+		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	netdev = alloc_etherdev(sizeof(struct ibmveth_adapter));
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