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.de
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 7de13302e8c8..1f6b4bd61056 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -212,13 +212,9 @@ static ssize_t bind_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
 	dev = bus_find_device_by_name(bus, NULL, buf);
 	if (dev && driver_match_device(drv, dev)) {
 		err = device_driver_attach(drv, dev);
-
-		if (err > 0) {
+		if (!err) {
 			/* success */
 			err = count;
-		} else if (err == 0) {
-			/* driver didn't accept device */
-			err = -ENODEV;
 		}
 	}
 	put_device(dev);