Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750756AbWJPO6p (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:58:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750760AbWJPO6p (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:58:45 -0400 Received: from mtagate2.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.151]:56980 "EHLO mtagate2.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750756AbWJPO6n (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:58:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 16:59:15 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: Alan Stern Cc: Greg K-H , linux-kernel Subject: Re: [Patch 0/3] Driver core: Some probing changes Message-ID: <20061016165915.774df040@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20061016104407.0fc87c4c@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.5 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 839 Lines: 24 On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:39:28 -0400 (EDT), Alan Stern wrote: > Patch 1 is somewhat questionable. Certainly the log message reporting the > error should be left in. OK, that makes sense. I'll do an updated patch. > The other issue is whether to continue with > probing other drivers. I guess there's no reason not to; stopping short > was merely an optimization. And not stopping also solves the "broken driver prevents any other driver from matching" problem. -- Cornelia Huck Linux for zSeries Developer Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com - 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/