Commit ca2b94ba authored by Hannes Reinecke's avatar Hannes Reinecke Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_device

The error handling in bus_add_device() and device_attach() is simply
non-existing. This patch propagates any error from device_attach to
the upper layers to allow for a proper recovery.

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent acaefc25
......@@ -270,11 +270,14 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device * dev)
if (bus) {
pr_debug("bus %s: add device %s\n", bus->name, dev->bus_id);
device_attach(dev);
error = device_attach(dev);
klist_add_tail(&bus->klist_devices, &dev->knode_bus);
device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id);
sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus");
if (error >= 0)
error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
if (!error) {
sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id);
sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus");
}
}
return error;
}
......@@ -394,7 +397,7 @@ static int bus_rescan_devices_helper(struct device *dev, void *data)
{
int *count = data;
if (!dev->driver && device_attach(dev))
if (!dev->driver && (device_attach(dev) > 0))
(*count)++;
return 0;
......
......@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ static int __device_attach(struct device_driver * drv, void * data)
* driver_probe_device() for each pair. If a compatible
* pair is found, break out and return.
*
* Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; 0 otherwise.
* Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver;
* 0 if no matching device was found; error code otherwise.
*/
int device_attach(struct device * dev)
{
......
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