The patch titled driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound. If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver() failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result, bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from device_add(). Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/base/base.h | 2 +- drivers/base/bus.c | 13 +++++-------- drivers/base/core.c | 5 +---- drivers/base/dd.c | 6 +++++- 4 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/base/base.h~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it drivers/base/base.h --- a/drivers/base/base.h~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it +++ a/drivers/base/base.h @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ extern int cpu_dev_init(void); extern int attribute_container_init(void); extern int bus_add_device(struct device * dev); -extern int bus_attach_device(struct device * dev); +extern void bus_attach_device(struct device * dev); extern void bus_remove_device(struct device * dev); extern struct bus_type *get_bus(struct bus_type * bus); extern void put_bus(struct bus_type * bus); diff -puN drivers/base/bus.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it drivers/base/bus.c --- a/drivers/base/bus.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it +++ a/drivers/base/bus.c @@ -420,21 +420,20 @@ out_put: * - Add device to bus's list of devices. * - Try to attach to driver. */ -int bus_attach_device(struct device * dev) +void bus_attach_device(struct device * dev) { struct bus_type *bus = dev->bus; - int ret = 0; + int ret; if (bus) { dev->is_registered = 1; ret = device_attach(dev); - if (ret >= 0) { + WARN_ON(ret < 0); + if (ret >= 0) klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_bus, &bus->klist_devices); - ret = 0; - } else + else dev->is_registered = 0; } - return ret; } /** @@ -607,8 +606,6 @@ static int __must_check bus_rescan_devic ret = device_attach(dev); if (dev->parent) up(&dev->parent->sem); - if (ret > 0) - ret = 0; } return ret < 0 ? ret : 0; } diff -puN drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it drivers/base/core.c --- a/drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it +++ a/drivers/base/core.c @@ -594,8 +594,7 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) if ((error = bus_add_device(dev))) goto BusError; kobject_uevent(&dev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - if ((error = bus_attach_device(dev))) - goto AttachError; + bus_attach_device(dev); if (parent) klist_add_tail(&dev->knode_parent, &parent->klist_children); @@ -613,8 +612,6 @@ int device_add(struct device *dev) Done: put_device(dev); return error; - AttachError: - bus_remove_device(dev); BusError: device_pm_remove(dev); PMError: diff -puN drivers/base/dd.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it drivers/base/dd.c --- a/drivers/base/dd.c~driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it +++ a/drivers/base/dd.c @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ static int device_probe_drivers(void *da * * Returns 1 if the device was bound to a driver; * 0 if no matching device was found or multithreaded probing is done; - * error code otherwise. + * -ENODEV if the device is not registered. * * When called for a USB interface, @dev->parent->sem must be held. */ @@ -244,6 +244,10 @@ int device_attach(struct device * dev) ret = device_bind_driver(dev); if (ret == 0) ret = 1; + else { + dev->driver = NULL; + ret = 0; + } } else { if (dev->bus->multithread_probe) probe_task = kthread_run(device_probe_drivers, dev, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx are driver-core-introduce-device_move-move-a-device.patch driver-core-use-klist_remove-in-device_move.patch driver-core-fixes-make_class_name-retval-checks.patch driver-core-fixes-sysfs_create_link-retval-checks-in.patch driver-core-fixes-device_register-retval-check-in.patch driver-core-dont-stop-probing-on-probe-errors.patch driver-core-change-function-call-order-in.patch driver-core-per-subsystem-multithreaded-probing.patch driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it.patch git-s390.patch s390-preparatory-cleanup-in-common-i-o-layer.patch s390-make-the-per-subchannel-lock-dynamic.patch s390-dynamic-subchannel-mapping-of-ccw-devices.patch tty-switch-to-ktermios-sclp-fix.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html