Re: [PATCH] USB and Driver Core patches for 2.6.10

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Sat Jan 08 2005 - 07:11:10 EST


On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 09:47:43PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> ChangeSet 1.1938.444.33, 2004/12/22 13:50:21-08:00, davej@xxxxxxxxxx
>
> [PATCH] driver core: Fix up vesafb failure probing.
>
> bus.c file invokes a probe callback for most devices in a list, then checks
> for -ENODEV return ("no such device"), if so it remains silent. However, some
> drivers (including vesafb.c) may return -ENXIO ("no such device or address"),
> which is indeed error -6.
>
> I shut up the warning with the attached patch, that basically ignores
> both -ENODEV and -ENXIO.

NAK. We shouldn't have two return codes indicating the same error (or
actually non-error in this case). Let's fix the drivers instead.

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