Re: [bug] pnp_register_card_driver/pnp_unregister_card_driver

[matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>]

Hi,

Adam Belay wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 08:33:47PM +0100, matthieu castet wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>pnp_register_driver could fail and return <0 result, in this case the 
>>driver shouldn't be pnp_unregister_driver.
>>
>>But if you look in pnp_register_card_driver, the result isn't checked. 
>>And it is always pnp_unregister_driver in pnp_unregister_card_driver.
>>
>>I know that pnp_register_card_driver shouldn't fail in normal condition, 
>>but who know...
>>
>>
>>Matthieu
> 
> 
> Yeah, you're right.  I'm probably going to do something like this.
> 
If you do something like this there will be some broken driver to 
correct. See [1] for isa alsa driver that assume that the result is >=0.


Matthieu

[1]
$grep -rI pnp_register_card_driver /usr/src/linux/sound/isa/
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/cs423x/cs4236.c:       cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&cs423x_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/gus/interwave.c:       i = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&interwave_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/sb/es968.c:    int cards = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&es968_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/sb/sb16.c:     i = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&sb16_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/als100.c:      cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&als100_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/sscape.c:              ret = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&sscape_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/opti9xx/opti92x-ad1848.c:      cards = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&opti9xx_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/ad1816a/ad1816a.c:     cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&ad1816a_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/wavefront/wavefront.c: cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&wavefront_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/dt019x.c:      cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&dt019x_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/es18xx.c:      i = 
pnp_register_card_driver(&es18xx_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/azt2320.c:     cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&azt2320_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/opl3sa2.c:     cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&opl3sa2_pnpc_driver);
/usr/src/linux/sound/isa/cmi8330.c:     cards += 
pnp_register_card_driver(&cmi8330_pnpc_driver);