Re: [patch] pata_winbond: fix module init

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On 08/17/2010 06:07 AM, Alan Cox wrote:
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:29:40 +0200
Dan Carpenter<error27@xxxxxxxxx>  wrote:

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 09:23:03PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

Hi Dan,

On Tuesday 03 August 2010 05:27:47 pm Dan Carpenter wrote:
winbond_init_one() returns 0 on success and an error code on failure.
In the original code, we always just released the regions and return
-ENODEV.  This was introduce in 2006 by 7e45b0e5f6f6 "[PATCH] libata:
Winbond support".

You might like to pick up

	http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39358/

instead..


I don't have the hardware, but yes, probably it's better to replace this
driver since it has never been able to load.

It was obsoleted into pata_legacy before it was ever finalised -
unfortunately I could then not get Jeff to delete it.

Easy enough to delete now...


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