Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:42:32 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB and Driver Core patches for 2.6.10 |
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 12:08:58PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > 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@redhat.com > > > > [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.
Ok, David, care to send a patch to do so?
thanks,
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