Re: [ALSA STABLE 3/3] a few more -- unregister platform device again if probe was unsuccessful

From: Russell King
Date: Thu Apr 13 2006 - 05:32:51 EST


On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 11:26:34AM +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi Rene,
> Wouldn't it be more useful to do these checks in
> platform_register_simple() and return the proper error value there?

Firstly, platform_device_register_simple() is going away.

Secondly, it's inappropriate to force this weirdo ALSA specific behaviour
on the rest of the platform device users.

--
Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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