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On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 04:01:27PM -0700, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: > This series of patches removes the assumption that pnp_register_driver() > returns the number of devices claimed. Returning the count is unreliable > because devices may be hot-plugged in the future. (Many devices don't > support hot-plug, of course, but PNP in general does.) > > This changes the convention to "zero for success, or a negative error > value," which matches pci_register_driver(), acpi_bus_register_driver(), > and platform_driver_register(). > > If drivers need to know the number of devices, they can count calls > to their .probe() methods. Andrew, I'd appreciate if you add this to mainline when it's convenient to make non-critical changes. Thanks, Adam - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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