Re: device driver probe return codes

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Dec 19 2008 - 00:49:22 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx> 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
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