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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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To: "Wiran, Francis" <francis.wiran@hp.com>
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Wiran, Francis wrote:
> check for negative value? That's odd. The pci_register_driver() in my
> copy of 2.4.24 kernel (drivers/pci/pci.c) looks something like this:
> 
> {
> 	count = 0;
> 
> 	for ....
> 		count += foo();
> 
> 	return count;
> }
> 
> 
> Or will it change in the future? The patch that I sent was based on what
> is in the current kernel.


Correct, Greg was referring to 2.6.x behavior of pci_register_driver(), 
which changed from 2.4.x.

	Jeff