Re: [RFC] [DRIVER MODEL] Make other buggy drivers warn

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Obviously just to provoke comment from these driver authors to point
out the error of their ways, and _not_ for merging.

diff -u b/drivers/net/depca.c b/drivers/net/depca.c
--- b/drivers/net/depca.c
+++ b/drivers/net/depca.c
@@ -2083,6 +2083,7 @@ static int __init depca_module_init (voi
         err |= eisa_driver_register (&depca_eisa_driver);
 #endif
 	err |= driver_register (&depca_isa_driver);
+#warning FIXME: what if one of the above registeration functions fails
 	depca_platform_probe ();
 	
         return err;
diff -u b/drivers/net/tokenring/proteon.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/proteon.c
--- b/drivers/net/tokenring/proteon.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/proteon.c
@@ -384,6 +384,7 @@ static int __init proteon_init(void)
 	/* Probe for cards. */
 	if (num == 0) {
 		printk(KERN_NOTICE "proteon.c: No cards found.\n");
+#warning FIXME: what about unregistering the platform driver?
 		return (-ENODEV);
 	}
 	return (0);
diff -u b/drivers/net/tokenring/skisa.c b/drivers/net/tokenring/skisa.c
--- b/drivers/net/tokenring/skisa.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tokenring/skisa.c
@@ -394,6 +394,7 @@ static int __init sk_isa_init(void)
 	/* Probe for cards. */
 	if (num == 0) {
 		printk(KERN_NOTICE "skisa.c: No cards found.\n");
+#warning FIXME: what about unregistering the platform driver?
 		return (-ENODEV);
 	}
 	return (0);
diff -u b/drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c
--- b/drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/dummy_hcd.c
@@ -1981,9 +1981,11 @@
  * statically allocated. */
 static void
 dummy_udc_release (struct device *dev) {}
+#warning FIXME: device release code in the module which unregisters the device is buggy

 static void
 dummy_hcd_release (struct device *dev) {}
+#warning FIXME: device release code in the module which unregisters the device is buggy
 
 static struct platform_device		the_udc_pdev = {
 	.name		= (char *) gadget_name,
diff -u b/sound/core/init.c b/sound/core/init.c
--- b/sound/core/init.c
+++ b/sound/core/init.c
@@ -694,6 +694,7 @@
 
 void snd_generic_device_release(struct device *dev)
 {
+#warning FIXME: release functions must not be empty
 }
 
 static int snd_generic_device_register(snd_card_t *card)


-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core
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