Re: [PATCH] exit early in floppy_init when no floppy exists

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Tue Aug 29 2006 - 04:26:03 EST


On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 10:07 +0200, Olaf Hering wrote:
> modprobe -v floppy on a Apple G5 writes incorrect stuff to dmesg:
>
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
>
> The reason is that the legacy io check happens very late,
> when part of the floppy stuff is already initialized.
> check_legacy_ioport() returns either -ENODEV right away, or it walks
> the device-tree looking for a floppy node.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> Can this go into 2.6.18 please? Our installer parses dmesg to find
> floppy devices. Dont ask....
>
>
>
>
> drivers/block/floppy.c | 12 +++++-------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
> Index: linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/block/floppy.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.18-rc4.orig/drivers/block/floppy.c
> +++ linux-2.6.18-rc4/drivers/block/floppy.c
> @@ -4177,6 +4177,11 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void)
> int i, unit, drive;
> int err, dr;
>
> +#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE)
> + if (check_legacy_ioport(FDC1))
> + return -ENODEV;
> +#endif
> +
> raw_cmd = NULL;
>
> for (dr = 0; dr < N_DRIVE; dr++) {
> @@ -4234,13 +4239,6 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void)
> }
>
> use_virtual_dma = can_use_virtual_dma & 1;
> -#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_MERGE)
> - if (check_legacy_ioport(FDC1)) {
> - del_timer(&fd_timeout);
> - err = -ENODEV;
> - goto out_unreg_region;
> - }
> -#endif
> fdc_state[0].address = FDC1;
> if (fdc_state[0].address == -1) {
> del_timer(&fd_timeout);
> -
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