Re: [PATCH] driver core: remove unheeded warning about driver methods

[Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>]

On 06/17/2009 06:59 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> This patch (as1263) removes a warning which has been present for so
> long, and consistently ignored, that it obviously is not doing any
> good.  It gets triggered on pretty much every boot by the SCSI disk
> and cdrom drivers.  Evidently nobody cares.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> 
> ---
> 
> Index: usb-2.6/drivers/base/driver.c
> ===================================================================
> --- usb-2.6.orig/drivers/base/driver.c
> +++ usb-2.6/drivers/base/driver.c
> @@ -225,12 +225,6 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver
>  
>  	BUG_ON(!drv->bus->p);
>  
> -	if ((drv->bus->probe && drv->probe) ||
> -	    (drv->bus->remove && drv->remove) ||
> -	    (drv->bus->shutdown && drv->shutdown))
> -		printk(KERN_WARNING "Driver '%s' needs updating - please use "
> -			"bus_type methods\n", drv->name);
> -
>  	other = driver_find(drv->name, drv->bus);
>  	if (other) {
>  		put_driver(other);
> 
> --


There was a proper and simple fix for that problem here:
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg860289.html

Hannes please re push this patch properly. We want it ;)

Boaz