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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: propagating failures down to pci_module_init()
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 16:33:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030120163321.A32585@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030120155435.GA29238@codemonkey.org.uk>; from davej@codemonkey.org.uk on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:54:35PM +0000

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:54:35PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> I've got a wierd situation with a certain chipset for agpgart.
> There are a few cases where I want to be able to use the existing
> pci_driver api to detect the right PCI device, and call
> the relevant .probe routine. No problem there.
> 
> The problem is that in these cases, I want to be able to read
> a certain register in that device, and if a bit is 0, bail out
> of the .probe function with -ENODEV, and make the loading of
> the module fail.
> 
> The problem is that the ENODEV in my .probe routine doesn't
> propagate back down as far as pci_module_init().
> 
> Ideas ?

Just use pci_register_driver.


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-20 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-20 15:54 propagating failures down to pci_module_init() Dave Jones
2003-01-20 16:33 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2003-01-20 16:52   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-01-20 16:56     ` Dave Jones

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