Re: [Rt2400-devel] [PATCH] rt2500usb - Don't claim 050d:705{0/a}

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Fri Oct 26 2007 - 15:10:46 EST


> Well it could be something quite simple, in the module loader it is looping
> through all modules to look for a device with the correct USB/PCI ID.
> Currently, after the first occurence it loads the module and doesn't continue,
> it should perhaps be relatively easy that it checks if the driver returned -ENODEV
> and continues looping to search for another driver.

But a driver (especially a driver for something as hot-pluggable as a
USB device) shouldn't return -ENODEV just because no devices are
present at the moment. It should just load successfully and wait for
a device to appear.

- R.
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