From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
To: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux DVB <linux-dvb@linuxtv.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-dvb] [PATCH] dvb-core: Handle failures to create devices
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 14:21:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0705011418130.309@shell2.speakeasy.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <463774FE.9030104@simon.arlott.org.uk>
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Simon Arlott wrote:
> dvb-core is not started early enough when device drivers that use dvb are
> compiled in so device_register_device fails (silently) since dvb_class is
> NULL, this runs dvb_init using subsys_initclass instead of module_init.
>
> dvb_register_device will now check the return value of class_device_create.
Good catch.
> + printk("%s: failed to create device dvb%d.%s%d (%ld)\n", __FUNCTION__,
> + adap->num, dnames[type], id, PTR_ERR(clsdev));
> + return PTR_ERR(clsdev);
printk(KERN_ERR "...."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-01 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-01 17:12 Simon Arlott
2007-05-01 17:14 ` Simon Arlott
2007-05-01 21:21 ` Trent Piepho [this message]
2007-05-01 21:33 ` [linux-dvb] " Simon Arlott
2007-05-06 22:50 ` Trent Piepho
2007-05-06 22:58 ` Simon Arlott
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