[PATCH v5 3/3] driver-core: print bus registration error value

From: Florian Schmaus
Date: Wed May 16 2018 - 11:36:21 EST


If driver_register() is called with an device driver which previously
called bus_register() but failed, then print out the bus_register()
error code.

Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <flo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Notes:
- Do not split long strings across lines.

drivers/base/driver.c | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 16b81d1c6cb7..a1fe7cb43c7e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -149,8 +149,14 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
struct device_driver *other;

if (!drv->bus->p) {
- pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with bus_type '%s' because it was not initialized.\n",
- drv->name, drv->bus->name);
+ if (drv->bus->bus_register_error) {
+ pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with bus_type '%s' because of error: %d.\n",
+ drv->name, drv->bus->name,
+ drv->bus->bus_register_error);
+ } else {
+ pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with bus_type '%s' because it was not initialized.\n",
+ drv->name, drv->bus->name);
+ }
return -EINVAL;
}

--
2.16.1