From akpm@linux-foundation.org Mon Feb 5 16:16:48 2007 From: Cornelia Huck Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 16:15:26 -0800 Subject: driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound To: greg@kroah.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com Message-ID: <200702060016.l160GTeM004051@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> From: Cornelia Huck Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound. If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver() failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result, bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from device_add(). Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/base/base.h | 2 +- drivers/base/bus.c | 11 ++++------- drivers/base/core.c | 5 +---- drivers/base/dd.c | 6 +++++- 4 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/base.h +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/base.h @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ extern int cpu_dev_init(void); extern int attribute_container_init(void); extern int bus_add_device(struct device * dev); -extern int bus_attach_device(struct device * dev); +extern void bus_attach_device(struct device * dev); extern void bus_remove_device(struct device * dev); extern struct bus_type *get_bus(struct bus_type * bus); extern void put_bus(struct bus_type * bus); --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/bus.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -418,7 +418,7 @@ out_put: * - Add device to bus's list of devices. * - Try to attach to driver. */ -int bus_attach_device(struct device * dev) +void bus_attach_device(struct device * dev) { struct bus_type *bus = dev->bus; int ret = 0; @@ -427,13 +427,12 @@ int bus_attach_device(struct device * de dev->is_registered = 1; if (bus->drivers_autoprobe) ret = device_attach(dev); - if (ret >= 0) { + WARN_ON(ret < 0); + if (ret >= 0) klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_bus, &bus->klist_devices); - ret = 0; - } else + else dev->is_registered = 0; } - return ret; } /** @@ -608,8 +607,6 @@ static int __must_check bus_rescan_devic ret = device_attach(dev); if (dev->parent) up(&dev->parent->sem); - if (ret > 0) - ret = 0; } return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; } --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/core.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/core.c @@ -607,8 +607,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) goto BusError; if (!dev->uevent_suppress) kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - if ((error = bus_attach_device(dev))) - goto AttachError; + bus_attach_device(dev); if (parent) klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children); @@ -627,8 +626,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) kfree(class_name); put_device(dev); return error; - AttachError: - bus_remove_device(dev); BusError: device_pm_remove(dev); PMError: --- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/base/dd.c +++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ static int device_probe_drivers(void *da * * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; * 0 if no matching device was found or multithreaded probing is done; - * error code otherwise. + * -ENODEV if the device is not registered. * * When called for a USB interface, @dev->parent->sem must be held. */ @@ -246,6 +246,10 @@ int device_attach(struct device * dev) ret = device_bind_driver(dev); if (ret == 0) ret = 1; + else { + dev->driver = NULL; + ret = 0; + } } else { if (dev->bus->multithread_probe) probe_task = kthread_run(device_probe_drivers, dev,