From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: device driver probe return codes
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:14:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081219051436.GA29543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216234128.05a343bb.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:41:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:53:31 +0000 Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> wrote:
>
> > I would like some feedback on the following regarding some
> > form of standardising return codes from a device driver probe
> > to try and stop some basic mistakes.
> >
> > This document is not complete, any additions would be welcone.
Hm, shouldn't you have at least copied me on this?
What is this for? Each of the different busses treat return codes for
their probe functions a bit differently, are you wanting to unify them?
And if so, why?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 5:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-16 21:53 device driver probe return codes Ben Dooks
2008-12-17 7:41 ` Andrew Morton
2008-12-18 10:14 ` Ben Dooks
2008-12-19 8:17 ` Ben Dooks
2008-12-19 5:14 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-12-19 8:16 ` Ben Dooks
2008-12-19 16:52 ` Greg KH
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