On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 05:24:42PM +0800, Peter Chen wrote: > If the probe fails, the ci13xxx_add_device will not return error, > (bus_probe_device doesn't has return value) > therefore, the platform layer can't know whether core's probe > is successful or not, if platform layer goes on using core's struct > which is initialized at core's probe, the error will occur. > > This error is showed when I only compile gadget, the host-only > controller reports "no supported roles", and fails probe, but imx > platform code doesn't know it, and goes on using core's private data. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> this just tells you that platform code shouldn't be using the driver directly. passing probe_retval via platform_data is an abomination, fix the real problem instead, whatever it is. -- balbi
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