Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc6

Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-12T09:03:09Z

On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 03:58:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Bjorn Helgaas:
> [IA64] don't report !sn2 or !summit hardware as an error
> [IA64] SGI SN drivers: don't report !sn2 hardware as an error

These should be reverted. They return success from initcalls when they
should report failure. In the mmtimer case this is a real bug as it can
be modular, in others it's just cosmetic but provides people wrong examples
to cut & paste from.