From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751322AbWDESfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:35:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751324AbWDESfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:35:50 -0400 Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl ([213.51.146.201]:54752 "EHLO smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751322AbWDESfu (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Apr 2006 14:35:50 -0400 Message-ID: <44340E12.9000202@keyaccess.nl> Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2006 20:36:02 +0200 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov CC: Greg KH , alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: patch bus_add_device-losing-an-error-return-from-the-probe-method.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree References: <44238489.8090402@keyaccess.nl> <4432EF58.1060502@keyaccess.nl> <44330DFA.4080106@keyaccess.nl> <200604042145.24685.dtor_core@ameritech.net> In-Reply-To: <200604042145.24685.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> Well, we could in fact hang an unregister off device->private_data as >> per attached example. Wouldn't be _excessively_ ugly. Still sucks >> though. > > Plus it broke all the drivers that create platform devices before > registering drivers or the ones simply not using private data. No, this was just a suggestion for an ALSA specific workaround. I was suggesting ALSA drivers could do this. Rene.