Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 2015 18:24:05 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3 1/9] device core: add BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND notification | From | Andy Shevchenko <> |
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On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 6:14 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:49:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: >> The users of BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER have no chance to do any cleanup in case of >> a probe failure. In the result there might be problems, such as some resources >> that had been allocated will continue to be allocated and therefore lead to a >> resource leak. >> >> Introduce a new notification to inform the subscriber that ->probe() failed. Do >> the same in case of failed device_bind_driver() call. > > Ugh, I hate all these notifiers, but this one does make sense...
Yeah, I'm not a fan of them either.
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
You meant Acked-by, didn't you?
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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