linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore bus_attach

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Date:	Mon, 9 Oct 2006 10:10:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
cc:	Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...e.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	ALSA development <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>,
	Castet Matthieu <castet.matthieu@...e.fr>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore bus_attach_device() retval

On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Cornelia Huck wrote:

> From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
> 
> Check for return value of bus_attach_device() in device_add(). Add a
> function bus_delete_device() that undos the effects of bus_add_device().
> bus_remove_device() now undos the effects of bus_attach_device() only.
> device_del() now calls bus_remove_device(), kobject_uevent(),
> bus_delete_device() which makes it symmetric to the call sequence in
> device_add().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>

This looks good to me.

Alan Stern

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