Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] device core: add BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND notification

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-12-05T16:14:17Z

On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:49:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The users of BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER have no chance to do any cleanup in case of
> a probe failure. In the result there might be problems, such as some resources
> that had been allocated will continue to be allocated and therefore lead to a
> resource leak.
>
> Introduce a new notification to inform the subscriber that ->probe() failed. Do
> the same in case of failed device_bind_driver() call.

Ugh, I hate all these notifiers, but this one does make sense...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>