From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com
Subject: Re: vesafb probe question
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 05:16:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501100516.17496.adaplas@hotpop.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7A8F92187EF7A249BF847F1BF4903C040AFC32@ausx2kmpc103.aus.amer.dell.com>
On Saturday 08 January 2005 05:03, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote:
> I'm getting a message in dmesg: "localhost kernel: vesafb: probe of
> vesafb0 failed with error -6"
>
> I searched the web, and found that a lot of people are getting this, but
> I couldn't find an answer, so I looked into it.
>
> This appears to be because "vesafb" returns -ENXIO ("No such device or
> address") when its probe function fails. However, driverse/base/bus.c
> spews an error message during device_attach() if a matching driver's
> probe function returns anything but -ENODEV ("No such device").
>
> Would a patch (like the one below) to change vesafb to return ENODEV
> instead of ENXIO be appropriate, or am I missing something?
-ENODEV is fine.
Tony
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2005-01-07 21:03 vesafb probe question Stuart_Hayes
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