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device core: add BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND notification

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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.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Andy Shevchenko
2015-12-04 23:49:17 +02:00
committed by Rafael J. Wysocki
parent 4077a387b7
commit 14b6257a5f
2 changed files with 9 additions and 2 deletions
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@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ extern int bus_unregister_notifier(struct bus_type *bus,
unbound */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_UNBOUND_DRIVER 0x00000007 /* driver is unbound
from the device */
#define BUS_NOTIFY_DRIVER_NOT_BOUND 0x00000008 /* driver fails to be bound */
extern struct kset *bus_get_kset(struct bus_type *bus);
extern struct klist *bus_get_device_klist(struct bus_type *bus);