On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 06:08:16PM +0200, Florian Schmaus wrote:
> If driver_register() is called with an device driver which previously
> called bus_register() but failed, then print out the bus_register()
> error code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Schmaus <f...@geekplace.eu>
> ---
>
> Notes:
> - Do not split long strings across lines.
>
> drivers/base/driver.c | 10 ++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
> index 16b81d1c6cb7..a1fe7cb43c7e 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
> @@ -149,8 +149,14 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
> struct device_driver *other;
>
> if (!drv->bus->p) {
> - pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with bus_type '%s'
> because it was not initialized.\n",
> - drv->name, drv->bus->name);
> + if (drv->bus->bus_register_error) {
> + pr_err("Driver '%s' was unable to register with
> bus_type '%s' because of error: %d.\n",
> + drv->name, drv->bus->name,
> + drv->bus->bus_register_error);
The error was with the bus registration, not the driver registration.
And really, when has this ever happened? Why would a bus registration
fail and later allow a driver to be registered? The bus registration
error would have shown up somewhere, no need to keep it around for no
real good reason.
So I don't think that patches 2 and 3 are needed at all here, sorry.
thanks,
greg k-h
