Re: [PATCH 2/3] firewire-sbp2: Ignore SBP-2 targets on the local node

[Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>]

Chris Boot wrote:
> On 11/02/2012 12:16, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
>> Stefan Richter wrote:
>>> On Feb 10 Chris Boot wrote:
>>>> +    /* ignore targets on the local node */
>>>> +    if (device->node == device->card->local_node) {
>>>> +        dev_set_drvdata(&unit->device, NULL);
>>>> +        return 0;
>>>> +    }
>>>
>>> But I do wonder:  Shouldn't this be implemented by returning from the
>>> driver probe method with an error? If so, which errno should be returned?
>>
>> -ENODEV or -ENXIO.
>
> Perhaps,

It's what really_probe() in drivers/base/dd.c requires:

	if (ret != -ENODEV && ret != -ENXIO) {
		/* driver matched but the probe failed */
		printk(KERN_WARNING
		       "%s: probe of %s failed with error %d\n",
		       drv->name, dev_name(dev), ret);
	} else {
		pr_debug("%s: probe of %s rejects match %d\n",
		       drv->name, dev_name(dev), ret);
	}

> but the meaning of those isn't quite what is happening here. We aren't
> saying the device doesn't exist or is inaccessible, just that we don't
> want to talk to it...

ENODEV does not mean "no device" but "no _such_ device".


Regards,
Clemens