Re: patch bus_add_device-losing-an-error-return-from-the-probe-method.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 4/5/06, Rene Herman <rene.herman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>
> >> Well, we could in fact hang an unregister off device->private_data as
> >> per attached example. Wouldn't be _excessively_ ugly. Still sucks
> >> though.
> >
> > Plus it broke all the drivers that create platform devices before
> > registering drivers or the ones simply not using private data.
>
> No, this was just a suggestion for an ALSA specific workaround. I was
> suggesting ALSA drivers could do this.
>

Yes, I am sorry - I misread the code snipped as if it was in driver
core, not in ALSA itself.

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Dmitry
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