[PATCH] driver core: Fix up the device_attach() error handling in bus_add_device()

Don't error out if something "bad" happens when trying to bind a driver to a
device.  We want the sysfs attributes to be present for later when we try to
tear down the device.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 43722af90bdd..c3fac7fd555e 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -270,10 +270,9 @@ int bus_add_device(struct device * dev)
 
         if (bus) {
                 pr_debug("bus %s: add device %s\n", bus->name, dev->bus_id);
-                error = device_attach(dev);
+                device_attach(dev);
                 klist_add_tail(&bus->klist_devices, &dev->knode_bus);
-                if (error >= 0)
-                        error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
+                error = device_add_attrs(bus, dev);
                 if (!error) {
                         sysfs_create_link(&bus->devices.kobj, &dev->kobj, dev->bus_id);
                         sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &dev->bus->subsys.kset.kobj, "bus");