Re: propagating failures down to pci_module_init()

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:52:36AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
 > 
 > Nope.  Look at pci_module_init code.  It propagates pci_register_driver
 > return value.
 > 
 > The _real_ problem is that ->probe return value is not propagated back
 > to pci_register_driver return value.  The reason for this is that you
 > may call ->probe many times, and nobody has written the code to collate
 > the error returns.
 > 
 > Since one can only sanely return an error code when there was _one_
 > device and it failed, you are rather limited in error propagation.

*nod*. I cheated, and used a static global, which seems to get the
desired effect I was after.

		Dave

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