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Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:03:32 +0900
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
To: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
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       Sebastien Bouchard <sebastien.bouchard@ca.kontron.com>, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:17:57PM -0800, Mark Gross wrote:
> > We expect platform_device_register_simple() returns proper errno as pointer
> > when it fails.
> 
> What's wrong with EBUSY?

-ENOMEM or -EINVAL could be returned by platform_device_register_simple()
logically. And we don't know what kind of change will be made into driver
core in future.