On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 11:49:17PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> The users of BUS_NOTIFY_BIND_DRIVER have no chance to do any cleanup in case 
> of
> a probe failure. In the result there might be problems, such as some resources
> that had been allocated will continue to be allocated and therefore lead to a
> resource leak.
> 
> Introduce a new notification to inform the subscriber that ->probe() failed. 
> Do
> the same in case of failed device_bind_driver() call.

Ugh, I hate all these notifiers, but this one does make sense...

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
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