Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: usb sysfs intf files no longer created when probe fails

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 05:53:28PM +0200, Stelian Pop wrote:
> Le mercredi 22 juin 2005 ?? 11:41 -0400, Alan Stern a ??crit :
> 
> > This is a curious aspect of the driver model core.  Should failure of a 
> > driver to bind be considered serious enough to cause device_add to fail?
> > The current answer is Yes unless the driver's probe routine returns 
> > -ENODEV or -ENXIO, in which case the failure is not considered serious.
> 
> Indeed. I've also tracked my problem down to the hid core which returns
> -EIO when it fails to drive an unknown HID device, instead of a more
> logical -ENODEV (this is not a failure to init a known device, but
> rather the impossibility to init an unknown device).
> 
> The patch below solves the problem for me:
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-trunk.git/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-trunk.git.orig/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c	2005-06-22
> 10:33:23.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6-trunk.git/drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c	2005-06-22
> 17:43:10.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1784,7 +1784,7 @@
>  	if (!hid->claimed) {
>  		printk ("HID device not claimed by input or hiddev\n");
>  		hid_disconnect(intf);
> -		return -EIO;
> +		return -ENODEV;
>  	}

Also need to do the same a few lines above in the code.  I've fixed that
too now.

thanks again,

greg k-h