[PATCH] hp300: fix driver_register() return handling, remove dio_module_init()
authorBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:17 +0000 (03:07 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:22:53 +0000 (08:22 -0800)
commite51c01b08474ea454a965a937fff0407ab6714c7
tree403e22aa86b4a24699df7cc1285ab915ec3eda1a
parent5930860296ca438071d3824bf7306ad0dfd33fc1
[PATCH] hp300: fix driver_register() return handling, remove dio_module_init()

Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver.  In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.

dio_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices.  That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because dio_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero).  So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.

This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/dio/dio-driver.c
drivers/net/hplance.c
drivers/serial/8250_hp300.c
drivers/video/hpfb.c
include/linux/dio.h