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From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 09:50:25 +0000
Subject: Re: git pull on ia64 linux tree
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>>>>> "Matthew" = Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> writes:

Matthew> On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 11:54:26AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote:
>> Bjorn Helgaas: [IA64] don't report !sn2 or !summit hardware as an
>> error [IA64] SGI SN drivers: don't report !sn2 hardware as an error

Matthew> I thought hch solved this by fixing the initcall code to not
Matthew> treat -ENODEV as an error worthy of reporting?

I agree, I think it's a bit unfortunate this was pushed upstream
before a decision was made.

IMHO it's correct to report -ENODEV if no device is present and have a
module auto-unload in that case.

Cheers,
Jes