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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/14] memstick: core: fix device_register() error handling
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 00:49, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:

>  int device_register(struct device *dev)
>  {
> +       int retval;
> +
>        device_initialize(dev);
> -       return device_add(dev);
> +       retval = device_add(dev);
> +       if (retval)
> +               put_device(dev);
> +       return retval;
>  }

> Kay, what am I missing here, why can't we just do this?  Hm, the
> side-affect might be that if device_register() fails, NO ONE had better
> touch that device again, as it might have just been freed from the
> system.  I wonder if that will cause problems...

That looks right, besides that there might be callers already doing
this. Which needs to be checked.

I never liked this pretty useless "convenience API", which just wraps
two simple functions and the first one can never fail anyway.

We better remove that device_register() stuff entirely in the long
run, it's not doing any good. At the kobject level we killed the same
stuff already long ago.

Kay
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