Re: [3C509] Fix sysfs leak.

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Dave Jones wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:09:49PM +0100, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>  > >>>>> "Dave" == Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> writes:
>  >
>  > Dave> Then the probing routine is bogus, it returns 0 when it fails too.
>  >
>  > Uh ? el3_eisa_probe looks like it properly returns an error...
>  >
>  > Or maybe you call a failure not finding a proper device on the bus ?
>
> The damned bus doesn't even exist. If this is a case that couldn't be
> detected, I'd not be complaining, but this is just nonsense having
> a driver claim that its found an EISA device, when there aren't even
> any EISA slots on the board.

There is no way that any software knows about an EISA bus. It
only knows that there is some device at some port. Since a 3c503
was built to go into an 8-bit EISA slot, if one is found it
is assumed to be in such a slot on the EISA bus!

So, if the device doesn't exist there is a problem with the
detection method for the device, not a detection method for
a bus because the bus can't be detected at all.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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