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authorRyan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil>2006-03-22 16:26:25 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-04-14 11:41:25 -0700
commit372254018eb1b65ee69210d11686bfc65c8d84db (patch)
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[PATCH] driver core: driver_bind attribute returns incorrect value
The manual driver <-> device binding attribute in sysfs doesn't return the correct value on failure or success of driver_probe_device. driver_probe_device returns 1 on success (the driver accepted the device) or 0 on probe failure (when the driver didn't accept the device but no real error occured). However, the attribute can't just return 0 or 1, it must return the number of bytes consumed from buf or an error value. Returning 0 indicates to userspace that nothing was written (even though the kernel has tried to do the bind/probe and failed). Returning 1 indicates that only one character was accepted in which case userspace will re-try the write with a partial string. A more correct version of driver_bind would return count (to indicate the entire string was consumed) when driver_probe_device returns 1 and -ENODEV when driver_probe_device returns 0. This patch makes that change. Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/bus.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 48718b7f4fa0..76656acd00d4 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@ static ssize_t driver_bind(struct device_driver *drv,
up(&dev->sem);
if (dev->parent)
up(&dev->parent->sem);
+
+ if (err > 0) /* success */
+ err = count;
+ else if (err == 0) /* driver didn't accept device */
+ err = -ENODEV;
}
put_device(dev);
put_bus(bus);