From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB and Driver Core patches for 2.6.10
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:42:32 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050108224232.GA3588@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050108120858.GB27414@infradead.org>
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:08:58PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:47:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > ChangeSet 1.1938.444.33, 2004/12/22 13:50:21-08:00, davej@redhat.com
> >
> > [PATCH] driver core: Fix up vesafb failure probing.
> >
> > bus.c file invokes a probe callback for most devices in a list, then checks
> > for -ENODEV return ("no such device"), if so it remains silent. However, some
> > drivers (including vesafb.c) may return -ENXIO ("no such device or address"),
> > which is indeed error -6.
> >
> > I shut up the warning with the attached patch, that basically ignores
> > both -ENODEV and -ENXIO.
>
> NAK. We shouldn't have two return codes indicating the same error (or
> actually non-error in this case). Let's fix the drivers instead.
Ok, David, care to send a patch to do so?
thanks,
greg k-h
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2005-01-08 5:46 [BK PATCH] USB and Driver Core patches for 2.6.10 Greg KH
2005-01-08 5:47 ` [PATCH] " Greg KH
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2005-01-08 22:42 ` Greg KH [this message]
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