driver core: Flow the return code from ->probe() through to sysfs bind
Currently really_probe() returns 1 on success and 0 if the probe() call fails. This return code arrangement is designed to be useful for __device_attach_driver() which is walking the device list and trying every driver. 0 means to keep trying. However, it is not useful for the other places that call through to really_probe() that do actually want to see the probe() return code. For instance bind_store() would be better to return the actual error code from the driver's probe method, not discarding it and returning -ENODEV. Reorganize things so that really_probe() returns the error code from ->probe as a (inverted) positive number, and 0 for successful attach. With this, __device_attach_driver can ignore the (positive) probe errors, return 1 to exit the loop for a successful binding and pass on the other negative errors, while device_driver_attach simplify inverts the positive errors and returns all errors to the sysfs code. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210617142218.1877096-4-hch@lst.deSigned-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>
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