[i2c] [PATCH] i2c: Keep client->driver and client->dev.driver in sync

Jean Delvare khali at linux-fr.org
Sun Mar 9 11:16:26 CET 2008


Hi David,

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 13:12:36 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> The only issue I have is that code which the driver probe()
> calls may expect client->driver to be set, but it won't be...
> 
> While I'd rather see client->driver vanish, in this case I'd
> just suggest leaving the early assignment, and nulling it out
> on error (instead of assigning it on success).

Oh well, that's exactly what Hans' patch did originally, I changed it
to make the code more simple, but if you think it is better that way,
I'll revert this change of mine. Here you go:

From: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl>

Ensure that client->driver is set to NULL if the probe() returns an
error (this keeps client->driver and client->dev.driver in sync).

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org>
---
 drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.25-rc4.orig/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c	2008-03-08 17:57:52.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.25-rc4/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c	2008-03-09 11:03:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -90,12 +90,16 @@ static int i2c_device_probe(struct devic
 {
 	struct i2c_client	*client = to_i2c_client(dev);
 	struct i2c_driver	*driver = to_i2c_driver(dev->driver);
+	int status;
 
 	if (!driver->probe)
 		return -ENODEV;
 	client->driver = driver;
 	dev_dbg(dev, "probe\n");
-	return driver->probe(client);
+	status = driver->probe(client);
+	if (status)
+		client->driver = NULL;
+	return status;
 }
 
 static int i2c_device_remove(struct device *dev)



-- 
Jean Delvare



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