Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:56:38 +0000 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: propagating failures down to pci_module_init() |
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On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:52:36AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Nope. Look at pci_module_init code. It propagates pci_register_driver > return value. > > The _real_ problem is that ->probe return value is not propagated back > to pci_register_driver return value. The reason for this is that you > may call ->probe many times, and nobody has written the code to collate > the error returns. > > Since one can only sanely return an error code when there was _one_ > device and it failed, you are rather limited in error propagation.
*nod*. I cheated, and used a static global, which seems to get the desired effect I was after.
Dave
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