From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262794AbUBREeg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:34:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263793AbUBREeg (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:34:36 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:487 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262794AbUBREef (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:34:35 -0500 Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:34:32 +0000 From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel , greg@kroah.com Subject: Re: 2.6.3rc4 ali1535 i2c driver rmmod oops. Message-ID: <20040218043432.GX8858@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <20040218031544.GB26304@redhat.com> <20040218034925.GI6242@redhat.com> <20040218040252.GJ6242@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040218040252.GJ6242@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 04:02:52AM +0000, Dave Jones wrote: > On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 08:00:35PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > I felt masochistic, so decided to 'see what would happen' when I ran this.. > > Whee. Fun. Do you actually have the hardware for it, or did it blow up > > even without any supported hardware? > > -ENOHARDWARE. > Judging by the number of bugs this has thrown up, not many folks test the > 'try a driver without the hardware' paths too often. Hell, yes. You should've seen the crap fixed by NE* patches in drivers/net/* - it certainly looks like the common mindset is "if this miserable box can't, for whatever reason, run My Driver(tm) - why the fuck does it dare to exist?"