Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Mar 2006 21:57:40 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Linux v2.6.16-rc6 |
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On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 12:54:53PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > 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.,
That's different. The pci drivers support hotplug. The ia64-specific drivers only driver onboard devices that can't appear at runtime.
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