Re: [PATCH] 2.6.6 synclinkmp.c

[Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>]

On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 15:57, Russell King wrote:
> If pci_register_driver fails, the driver is not, repeat not left
> registered.  Therefore it must not be unregistered after failure
> to register.

You are right. The specific problem I was trying to
fix is when no hardware is detected. I looked at other
PCI drivers (char/epca.c and net/eepro100.c) and which call
pci_unregister_driver if pci_register_driver returns <= 0
and indicates that pci_register_device returns the number
of pci devices detected. I now see that the two drivers I
looked at are broken. (bad luck that)

After looking at the source for pci_register_device(),
if no devices are detected, then it still returns 1.

I will rework the patches against synclink.c/synclinkmp.c
to only call pci_unregister_device() if init fails
(such as when no devices are detected)
*and* the call to pci_register_device() succeeds.

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Paul Fulghum
paulkf@microgate.com