Re: [PATCH] bluetooth: hci_bcm: Check for driver_register failure

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Fri Jan 18 2019 - 05:59:32 EST


Hi Aditya,

> While initializing the driver, the function platform_driver_register can
> fail and return an error. Consistent with other invocations, this patch
> returns the error upstream.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Pakki <pakki001@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c
> index ddbe518c3e5b..f5ddb0f19c31 100644
> --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c
> +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_bcm.c
> @@ -1442,7 +1442,12 @@ int __init bcm_init(void)
> /* For now, we need to keep both platform device
> * driver (ACPI generated) and serdev driver (DT).
> */
> - platform_driver_register(&bcm_driver);
> + int rc;
> +
> + rc = platform_driver_register(&bcm_driver);
> + if (rc)
> + return rc;
> +

actually I am fine with ignoring the error here since the usage of a platform device should be removed at some point. It was sort of a hack before we had proper ACPI integration and serdev support.

Regards

Marcel