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authorCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>2006-11-27 10:35:10 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2007-02-07 10:37:12 -0800
commitc578abbc20762aa58e390e55252959853eeea17e (patch)
treee8870796fae1541b7c7978d85d0ac486cd9842db /drivers/base
parentfbfb14455391b89edcf37327526988dea7849532 (diff)
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driver core: Don't stop probing on ->probe errors.
Don't stop on the first ->probe error that is not -ENODEV/-ENXIO. There might be a driver registered returning an unresonable return code, and this stops probing completely even though it may make sense to try the next possible driver. At worst, we may end up with an unbound device. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/dd.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 510e7884975f..f70513748947 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -136,18 +136,17 @@ probe_failed:
driver_sysfs_remove(dev);
dev->driver = NULL;
- if (ret == -ENODEV || ret == -ENXIO) {
- /* Driver matched, but didn't support device
- * or device not found.
- * Not an error; keep going.
- */
- ret = 0;
- } else {
+ if (ret != -ENODEV && ret != -ENXIO) {
/* driver matched but the probe failed */
printk(KERN_WARNING
"%s: probe of %s failed with error %d\n",
drv->name, dev->bus_id, ret);
}
+ /*
+ * Ignore errors returned by ->probe so that the next driver can try
+ * its luck.
+ */
+ ret = 0;
done:
kfree(data);
atomic_dec(&probe_count);