Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc6

[Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>]

On Sunday 12 March 2006 02:03, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

Do you want all the drivers that just return pci_register_driver(&foo)
to be changed as well?  I haven't heard a compelling argument either way,
but there are certainly many drivers that return 0 when they successfully
register a driver that didn't find any devices, e.g., 

    static int __init serial8250_pci_init(void)
    {
        return pci_register_driver(&serial_pci_driver);
    }
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