From: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Cc: mark.gross@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 08:56:48 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070103165648.GA3810@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061205182543.GA19497@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:25:43AM -0800, Mark Gross wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:03:32PM +0900, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Ok, would you like me to ack your earlier patch or will you send a new
> one?
I'm working on an update to the tlclk driver to avoid a race in the open
and read functions. Do you have any changes I should roll into the
driver?
--mgross
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-03 17:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-22 18:41 [PATCH] tlclk: fix platform_device_register_simple() error check Akinobu Mita
2006-11-27 20:34 ` Mark Gross
2006-11-27 20:46 ` Mark Gross
2006-11-28 6:08 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-11-29 21:17 ` Mark Gross
2006-12-02 4:03 ` Akinobu Mita
2006-12-05 18:25 ` Mark Gross
2007-01-03 16:56 ` Mark Gross [this message]
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