Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 17:09:19 -0800
From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: jesper.juhl@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: initcall at ... returned with error code -19 (Was: Re:
 2.6.16-rc5-mm2)
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Andrew wrote:
> That's OK - it's -ENODEV. 

I can't help but wonder if the particular case of -ENODEV should
be kept quiet, as in the following totally untested patch:

diff -Naurp 2.6.16-rc5-mm2.orig/init/main.c 2.6.16-rc5-mm2/init/main.c
--- 2.6.16-rc5-mm2.orig/init/main.c	2006-03-06 17:02:46.491860190 -0800
+++ 2.6.16-rc5-mm2/init/main.c	2006-03-06 17:07:29.754830844 -0800
@@ -608,7 +608,8 @@ static void __init do_initcalls(void)
 
 		result = (*call)();
 
-		if (result) {
+		/* don't mind -ENODEV - just a driver w/o hardware */
+		if (result && result != -ENODEV) {
 			sprintf(msgbuf, "error code %d", result);
 			msg = msgbuf;
 		}

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