Re: patch bus_add_device-losing-an-error-return-from-the-probe-method.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On Tuesday 04 April 2006 17:45, Greg KH wrote:
> > But why do we do that? probe() failing is driver's problem. The device
> > is still there and should still be presented in sysfs. I don't think
> > that we should stop if probe() fails - maybe next driver manages to
> > bind itself.
> 
> The device is still there.
> 
> Ah, I see what you are saying now.  Yeah, we should still add the
> default attributes for the bus and create the bus link even if some
> random driver had problems. 

Not only that, but device will be killed as well - if bus_add_device()
fails device_add() branches into BusError which leads to kobject_del().

-- 
Dmitry
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