Re: [PATCH] isdn: Return -EINTR in gigaset_start() if locking attempts fails.
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2012-03-17 06:19:16
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From: santosh nayak <redacted> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:40:13 +0530
We have 3 callers: gigaset_probe(), gigaset_tty_open() and gigaset_probe(). Each caller tries to free allocated memory if lock fails. This is possible if we returns -EINTR.
Look again at the callers. They interpret "0" as an error, so your patch would break the driver.