From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] fix driver_register() return value
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:46:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091017204608.GA5676@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ADA29AA.9070907@aknet.ru>
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:31:38AM +0400, Stas Sergeev wrote:
> Hi Greg.
>
> In this patch:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=16dc42e018c2868211b4928f20a957c0c216126c
> the check was added for another
> driver to already claim the same
> device on the same bus. But the
> returned error code was wrong:
> to modprobe, the -EEXIST means
> that _this_ driver is already
> installed. It therefore doesn't
> produce the needed error message
> when _another_ driver is trying
> to register for the same device.
> Returning -EBUSY fixes the problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Does this cause problems with the way things now are? If so, what are
they? Does this change need to be backported to older -stable kernels?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-17 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-17 20:31 [patch] fix driver_register() return value Stas Sergeev
2009-10-17 20:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-10-17 21:03 ` Stas Sergeev
2009-10-26 23:56 ` patch driver-core-fix-driver_register-return-value.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree gregkh
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