Re: [PATCH 2/2] staging: fieldbus: anybus: Refuse registering drivers without .probe()

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On Wed, May 05, 2021 at 05:04:55PM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote:
> On Wed, May 5, 2021 at 4:29 PM Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > A driver without .probe() callback could never bind to a device because
> > anybus_bus_probe() returned an error for such a driver. So refuse to
> > register such a useless driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Looks good to me. For the series:
> Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Uwe, I'm glad you're submitting patches for fieldbus. Hope you find it
> useful. This code is in staging mainly because only a single
> company/developer is using it. So if you are actively using this, or
> planning to use it, we can work towards taking this out of staging, if
> you like.
> 
> Sven
> 

Hi Sven,

I'm trying to make my way in linux kernel device driver development and
hopefully find a job soon. If the task 'moving fieldbus out of staging' will
give me opportunity to play with real hardware, and so gain more experience,
we can talk about it.

thank you,

fabio




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