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authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>2006-03-25 03:07:17 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-25 08:22:53 -0800
commite51c01b08474ea454a965a937fff0407ab6714c7 (patch)
tree403e22aa86b4a24699df7cc1285ab915ec3eda1a /include/linux/dio.h
parent5930860296ca438071d3824bf7306ad0dfd33fc1 (diff)
[PATCH] hp300: fix driver_register() return handling, remove dio_module_init()
Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative error value. dio_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and unload drivers that found no devices. That might have worked at one time, but has been broken for some time because dio_register_driver() returned either a negative error or a positive count (never zero). So it could only unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway. This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting devices in their .probe() methods. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/dio.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/dio.h32
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/dio.h b/include/linux/dio.h
index fae9395fcf4..1e65ebc2a3d 100644
--- a/include/linux/dio.h
+++ b/include/linux/dio.h
@@ -276,37 +276,5 @@ static inline void dio_set_drvdata (struct dio_dev *d, void *data)
dev_set_drvdata(&d->dev, data);
}
-/*
- * A helper function which helps ensure correct dio_driver
- * setup and cleanup for commonly-encountered hotplug/modular cases
- *
- * This MUST stay in a header, as it checks for -DMODULE
- */
-static inline int dio_module_init(struct dio_driver *drv)
-{
- int rc = dio_register_driver(drv);
-
- if (rc > 0)
- return 0;
-
- /* iff CONFIG_HOTPLUG and built into kernel, we should
- * leave the driver around for future hotplug events.
- * For the module case, a hotplug daemon of some sort
- * should load a module in response to an insert event. */
-#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG) && !defined(MODULE)
- if (rc == 0)
- return 0;
-#else
- if (rc == 0)
- rc = -ENODEV;
-#endif
-
- /* if we get here, we need to clean up DIO driver instance
- * and return some sort of error */
- dio_unregister_driver(drv);
-
- return rc;
-}
-
#endif /* __KERNEL__ */
#endif /* ndef _LINUX_DIO_H */