Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

[Thomas Dodd <ted@cypress.com>]

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Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an
> implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar
> so that it is runtime

This seamed to work here.

	-Thomas

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diff -u --new-file --recursive linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c linux-2.4.3-ac2/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c
--- linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c	Wed Apr  4 15:23:15 2001
+++ linux-2.4.3-ac2/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c	Thu Apr  5 14:02:08 2001
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@
 static LIST_HEAD (ohci_hcd_list);
 static spinlock_t usb_ed_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 
+static int overrideBlacklist = 0;
+MODULE_PARM(overrideBlacklist, "i");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(overrideBlacklist, " override blacklisted controlers");
+
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*
  * URB support functions 
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 
@@ -2333,12 +2337,13 @@
 	void *mem_base;
 
 	/* blacklisted hardware? */
-	if (id->driver_data) {
-		info ("%s (%s): %s", dev->slot_name,
+	if (overrideBlacklist != 1){
+		if (id->driver_data) {
+			info ("%s (%s): %s", dev->slot_name,
 			dev->name, (char *) id->driver_data);
 		return -ENODEV;
+		}
 	}
-
 	if (pci_enable_device(dev) < 0)
 		return -ENODEV;