Re: USB host drivers test results (2.5.19) and problem.

Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:41:55 +1000


On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:07, Stelian Pop wrote:
> However, maybe even a hotplug aware driver should print out a message
> upon initialization telling 'no hardware found'... It could be useful
> when you want to know the difference between:
> * bad driver, use another one
> * good driver, but doesn't recognize/init the hardware because it's buggy.
Even if you have the driver compiled in, and there is no hotplug, you still
don't want every driver complaining about not having suitable hardware. Think
distribution kernels (or "kernel that handles my heterogenous lab") and
network device drivers...

Brad

-- 
http://conf.linux.org.au. 22-25Jan2003. Perth, Australia. Birds in Black.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/