Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check

[Mark Gross]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:25:43AM -0800, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:32PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Ok, would you like me to ack your earlier patch or will you send a new
> one?

I'm working on an update to the tlclk driver to avoid a race in the open
and read functions.  Do you have any changes I should roll into the
driver?

--mgross
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