Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm3

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Mar 10 2006 - 04:42:13 EST


On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 03:23:30AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 02:19:29AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > +ia64-dont-report-sn2-or-summit-hardware-as-an-error.patch
> > > +sgi-sn-drivers-dont-report-sn2-hardware-as-an-error.patch
> > >
> > > ia64 fixes
> >
> > These are wrong. The hardware is not available so -ENODEV is the right
> > return value. Especially in the mmtimer case this is a real bug because
> > the module would stay loaded despite not beeing initialized and uneeded,
> > in the others it's just cosmetical but still wrong.
>
> OK, thanks, gone.

The patches went into mainline anyway yesterday..

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