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Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 23:18:23 +0200
From: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
To: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/29] drivers: base: add notifier for failed driver bind
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On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 12:47:32PM +0200, Marek Szyprowski wrote:
> +	if (failed && dev->bus)
> +		blocking_notifier_call_chain(&dev->bus->p->bus_notifier,
> +					     BUS_NOTIFY_DRVBIND_FAILED, dev);
> +

Why can't you just use the notifier for BUS_NOTIFY_UNBIND_DRIVER or
BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER when something goes wrong in driver
initialization?


	Joerg