Driver core: fix driver_register() return value

In this patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=16dc42e018c2868211b4928f20a957c0c216126c
the check was added for another driver to already claim the same device
on the same bus. But the returned error code was wrong: to modprobe, the
-EEXIST means that _this_ driver is already installed. It therefore
doesn't produce the needed error message when _another_ driver is trying
to register for the same device.  Returning -EBUSY fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index ed2ebd3c287d24917f6d48dd963a3b27d0a19305..f367885a76460cea4097372a035408560206c7d5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver *drv)
                put_driver(other);
                printk(KERN_ERR "Error: Driver '%s' is already registered, "
                        "aborting...\n", drv->name);
-               return -EEXIST;
+               return -EBUSY;
        }
 
        ret = bus_add_driver(drv);