Re: [PATCH] cciss: return 0 from driver probe function on success, not 1

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 16:54:44 -0500 scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com wrote:

> > > How did this ever work?
> > 
> > Beats me.  local_pci_probe() does
> > 
> > 	rc = pci_drv->probe(pci_dev, ddi->id);
> > 	if (rc) {
> > 		pci_dev->driver = NULL;
> > 		pm_runtime_put_sync(dev);
> > 	}
> > 	return rc;
> > 
> > shrug, maybe this ->probe somehow has a different caller which checks
> > for <0.
> 
> Older kernels (eg: http://lxr.linux.no/#linux+v2.6.32.61/drivers/pci/pci-driver.c )
> had different code:
> 
>  330__pci_device_probe(struct pci_driver *drv, struct pci_dev *pci_dev)
>  331{
>  332        const struct pci_device_id *id;
>  333        int error = 0;
>  334
>  335        if (!pci_dev->driver && drv->probe) {
>  336                error = -ENODEV;
>  337
>  338                id = pci_match_device(drv, pci_dev);
>  339                if (id)
>  340                        error = pci_call_probe(drv, pci_dev, id);
>  341                if (error >= 0) {
>  342                        pci_dev->driver = drv;
>  343                        error = 0;
>  344                }
>  345        }
>  346        return error;
>  347}

So cciss is presently kompletely kaput?  If so, the kapputting code is
present in 3.9 and probably earlier, so this patch is needed in 3.12 and
-stable.  Or if not, what?

(Playing question and answer like this is a bad way of writing a
changelog btw - all this stuff should have been right there in the v1
changelog).