From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@gmail.com>
Cc: rt2400-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kernel-stuff@comcast.net,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Rt2400-devel] [PATCH] rt2500usb - Don't claim 050d:705{0/a}
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:10:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adamyu5zo88.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710262039.17027.IvDoorn@gmail.com> (Ivo van Doorn's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:39:16 +0200")
> Well it could be something quite simple, in the module loader it is looping
> through all modules to look for a device with the correct USB/PCI ID.
> Currently, after the first occurence it loads the module and doesn't continue,
> it should perhaps be relatively easy that it checks if the driver returned -ENODEV
> and continues looping to search for another driver.
But a driver (especially a driver for something as hot-pluggable as a
USB device) shouldn't return -ENODEV just because no devices are
present at the moment. It should just load successfully and wait for
a device to appear.
- R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-26 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-24 23:22 [PATCH] rt2500usb - Don't claim 050d:705{0/a} Parag Warudkar
2007-10-25 19:35 ` [Rt2400-devel] " Adam Baker
2007-10-25 22:33 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-10-25 21:15 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-10-25 22:41 ` Parag Warudkar
2007-10-26 18:39 ` Ivo van Doorn
2007-10-26 19:10 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2007-10-26 19:58 ` Adam Baker
2007-10-26 20:05 ` Roland Dreier
2007-10-26 21:34 ` Ivo van Doorn
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