linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register

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Message-ID: <20061202040332.GA22330@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:03:32 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	Mark Gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sebastien Bouchard <sebastien.bouchard@...kontron.com>,
	akpm@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:17:57PM -0800, Mark Gross wrote:
> > We expect platform_device_register_simple() returns proper errno as pointer
> > when it fails.
> 
> What's wrong with EBUSY?

-ENOMEM or -EINVAL could be returned by platform_device_register_simple()
logically. And we don't know what kind of change will be made into driver
core in future.
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