From hare@suse.de Wed May 18 01:50:07 2005 Message-ID: <428AFFEF.7010204@suse.de> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 10:42:23 +0200 From: Hannes Reinecke To: Greg KH Cc: Andrew Morton , Kay Sievers Subject: driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_device The error handling in bus_add_device() and device_attach() is simply non-existing. This patch propagates any error from device_attach to the upper layers to allow for a proper recovery. From: Hannes Reinecke Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/drivers/base/bus.c.orig 2005-05-18 10:26:50.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/drivers/base/bus.c 2005-05-18 10:36:08.000000000 +0200 @@ -270,11 +270,14 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device * dev) if (bus) { pr_debug("bus %s: add device %s\n", bus->name, dev->bus_id); - device_attach(dev); + error = device_attach(dev); klist_add_tail(&bus->klist_devices, &dev->knode_bus); - device_add_attrs(bus, dev); - sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); - sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus"); + if (error >= 0) + error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev); + if (!error) { + sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id); + sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus"); + } } return error; } @@ -394,7 +397,7 @@ static int bus_rescan_devices_helper(str { int *count = data; - if (!dev->driver && device_attach(dev)) + if (!dev->driver && (device_attach(dev) > 0)) (*count)++; return 0; --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/drivers/base/dd.c.orig 2005-05-18 10:29:27.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/drivers/base/dd.c 2005-05-18 10:39:45.000000000 +0200 @@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device * driver_probe_device() for each pair. If a compatible * pair is found, break out and return. * - * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; 0 otherwise. + * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; + * 0 if no matching device was found; error code otherwise. */ int device_attach(struct device * dev) {