From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 22:38:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: kmod: correct documentation of return status of request_module
X-Git-Tag: v4.9.8~3570^2~34
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60b61a6f42f36e4fbfbc0139b7e86ce1494d2d9b;p=platform%2Fkernel%2Flinux-rpi3.git

kmod: correct documentation of return status of request_module

If request_module() successfully runs modprobe, but modprobe exits with a
non-zero status, then the return value from request_module() will be that
(positive) error status.  So the return from request_module can be:

 negative errno
 zero for success
 positive exit code.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/kernel/kmod.c b/kernel/kmod.c
index 2777f40..1734ba6 100644
--- a/kernel/kmod.c
+++ b/kernel/kmod.c
@@ -114,10 +114,11 @@ out:
  * @...: arguments as specified in the format string
  *
  * Load a module using the user mode module loader. The function returns
- * zero on success or a negative errno code on failure. Note that a
- * successful module load does not mean the module did not then unload
- * and exit on an error of its own. Callers must check that the service
- * they requested is now available not blindly invoke it.
+ * zero on success or a negative errno code or positive exit code from
+ * "modprobe" on failure. Note that a successful module load does not mean
+ * the module did not then unload and exit on an error of its own. Callers
+ * must check that the service they requested is now available not blindly
+ * invoke it.
  *
  * If module auto-loading support is disabled then this function
  * becomes a no-operation.