Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:24:47 +0000 | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 3/7] driver core fixes: device_register() retval check in platform.c |
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On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 10:35:08AM +0100, Cornelia Huck wrote: > From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> > > Check the return value of device_register() in platform_bus_init().
I still say this is absolutely crazy. If a bus does not get registered, what happens to all the devices and drivers which are registered against that bus?
I suspect that if this bus_register doesn't work, you'll see an oops sooner or later. So it might as well be a BUG_ON here.
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