On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 03:53:46PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:

On Tue, Jun 15 2021, Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

really_probe tries to special case errors from ->probe, but due to all
other initialization added to the function over time now a lot of
internal errors hit that code path as well.  Untangle that by adding
a new probe_err local variable and apply the special casing only to
that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
---
 drivers/base/dd.c | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index 7477d3322b3a..fd83817240e6 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c

@@ -513,12 +513,44 @@ static ssize_t state_synced_show(struct device *dev,
 }
 static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(state_synced);
 
+
+static int call_driver_probe(struct device *dev, struct device_driver *drv)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+
+	if (dev->bus->probe)
+		ret = dev->bus->probe(dev);
+	else if (drv->probe)
+		ret = drv->probe(dev);
+
+	switch (ret) {
+	case 0:
+		break;
+	case -EPROBE_DEFER:
+		/* Driver requested deferred probing */
+		dev_dbg(dev, "Driver %s requests probe deferral\n", drv->name);
+		break;
+	case -ENODEV:
+	case -ENXIO:
+		pr_debug("%s: probe of %s rejects match %d\n",
+			 drv->name, dev_name(dev), ret);
+		break;
+	default:
+		/* driver matched but the probe failed */
+		pr_warn("%s: probe of %s failed with error %d\n",
+			drv->name, dev_name(dev), ret);

Convert these two pr_* to dev_* when touching the code anyway?

It can wait, it's just moving code around for now.

thanks,

greg k-h