On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > * Alan Stern | 2011-04-14 11:40:19 [-0400]: > > >I would prefer to see this fixed by testing the_controller in init(), > >after the call to platform_device_add(the_hcd_pdev). That way the user > >will know that initialization failed, rather than finding that things > >silently don't work. > > This isn't actually that silently: > > | usbcore: registered new device driver usb > | dummy_hcd dummy_hcd: USB Host+Gadget Emulator, driver 02 May 2005 > | dummy_hcd dummy_hcd: Dummy host controller > | dummy_hcd dummy_hcd: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 What was the cause of the failure here? > | dummy_hcd dummy_hcd: USB bus 1 deregistered > | dummy_hcd: probe of dummy_hcd failed with error -22 This shows up only in the kernel log. It would be better to have the entire initialization of the dummy-hcd module fail. > However I can move that check if you prefer :) Yes. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
