Re: patch bus_add_device-losing-an-error-return-from-the-probe-method.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

Well, we could in fact hang an unregister off device->private_data as per attached example. Wouldn't be _excessively_ ugly. Still sucks though.

Plus it broke all the drivers that create platform devices before
registering drivers or the ones simply not using private data.

No, this was just a suggestion for an ALSA specific workaround. I was suggesting ALSA drivers could do this.

Rene.
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