[PATCH] driver core: Fix up the device_attach() error handling in bus_add_device()
Don't error out if something "bad" happens when trying to bind a driver to a
device. We want the sysfs attributes to be present for later when we try to
tear down the device.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
commit d377e85b537a5e166272f937da6ba84350676b6e
tree f3e5f347cbaa72a1479d991f7cab83228dd44bf0
parent 479f6ea85e513551510ad52f37e69e1c596ad356
author Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:09:05 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> Wed, 22 Jun 2005 23:01:10 -0700
drivers/base/bus.c | 5 ++---
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -270,10 +270,9 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device * dev)
if (bus) {
pr_debug("bus %s: add device %s\n", bus->name, dev->bus_id);
- error = device_attach(dev);
+ device_attach(dev);
klist_add_tail(&bus->klist_devices, &dev->knode_bus);
- if (error >= 0)
- error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
+ error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
if (!error) {
sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id);
sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus");
-
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