[PATCH] uml: return hotplug errors to host

I noticed that errors happening while hotplugging devices from the host were
never returned back to the mconsole client.  In some cases, success was
returned instead of even an information-free error.

This patch cleans that up by having the low-level configuration code pass back
an error string along with an error code.  At the top level, which knows
whether it is early boot time or responding to an mconsole request, the string
is printk'd or returned to the mconsole client.

There are also whitespace and trivial code cleanups in the surrounding code.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/include/mconsole_kern.h b/arch/um/include/mconsole_kern.h
index 1ea6d928e1cd..73030e52b2ce 100644
--- a/arch/um/include/mconsole_kern.h
+++ b/arch/um/include/mconsole_kern.h
@@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ struct mconsole_entry {
 struct mc_device {
         struct list_head list;
         char *name;
-        int (*config)(char *);
+        int (*config)(char *, char **);
         int (*get_config)(char *, char *, int, char **);
         int (*id)(char **, int *, int *);
-        int (*remove)(int);
+        int (*remove)(int, char **);
 };
 
 #define CONFIG_CHUNK(str, size, current, chunk, end) \
@@ -50,14 +50,3 @@ static inline void mconsole_register_dev(struct mc_device *new)
 #endif
 
 #endif
-
-/*
- * Overrides for Emacs so that we follow Linus's tabbing style.
- * Emacs will notice this stuff at the end of the file and automatically
- * adjust the settings for this buffer only.  This must remain at the end
- * of the file.
- * ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- * Local variables:
- * c-file-style: "linux"
- * End:
- */