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authorStas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>2009-10-18 00:31:38 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-10-30 14:59:51 -0700
commit39acbc12affcaa23ef1d887ba3d197baca8e6e47 (patch)
tree51249000a01a41a4036c8be1313186b0c4116206 /drivers/base/driver.c
parent2e2ec952350f25242f2e0539db16b1e46f9eb01b (diff)
downloadlinux-39acbc12affcaa23ef1d887ba3d197baca8e6e47.tar.gz
Driver core: fix driver_register() return value
In this patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=16dc42e018c2868211b4928f20a957c0c216126c
the check was added for another driver to already claim the same device
on the same bus. But the returned error code was wrong: to modprobe, the
-EEXIST means that _this_ driver is already installed. It therefore
doesn't produce the needed error message when _another_ driver is trying
to register for the same device.  Returning -EBUSY fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/driver.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/driver.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index ed2ebd3c287d..f367885a7646 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
 		put_driver(other);
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Error: Driver '%s' is already registered, "
 			"aborting...\n", drv->name);
-		return -EEXIST;
+		return -EBUSY;
 	}
 
 	ret = bus_add_driver(drv);