On Monday 02 October 2006 19:25, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 3. Oktober 2006 01:12 schrieb Pete Zaitcev:
> 
> > I do not remember the precise chain of reasoning now, but IIRC our input
> > open methods must not return non-zero codes (even though they are defined
> > to return error codes). It has something to do with the way input layer
> > is coded. So, it's a GOOD thing that you forgot to use 'rv' after it
> > was set to -EIO.
> 
> It seem that input_open_device()'s return values are ignored.
> Coding after midnight is something I simply shouldn't do.
> 
> On philosophical reason, I must say that ignoring errors is evil,
> but I am not going to work through the input layer right now.
>

The error checking is being added, please report proper error codes
from within ->open() methids.

-- 
Dmitry

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