On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Aaron Sierra wrote:
> The driver's bus_num parameter is used to select a VME bus during probe.
> This parameter is used both as a boolean to indicate that probing should
> occur as well as which bus should be probed. However, the first bus in
> the system is bus zero, so this method prevents the first bus from being
> accepted during probe.
>
Umm, no. The array "bus" holds the buses that should be probed, bus_num
holds the length of the array passed.
> This patch changes the default value of bus_num to -1, so that any
> number in the range of 0 to VME_USER_BUS_MAX will be accepted during
> probe.
>
> Signed-off-by: Aaron Sierra <asie...@xes-inc.com>
> ---
> drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c | 9 +--------
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> index b95883b..fc660bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@
> static const char driver_name[] = "vme_user";
>
> static int bus[VME_USER_BUS_MAX];
> -static unsigned int bus_num;
> +static int bus_num = -1;
>
> /* Currently Documentation/devices.txt defines the following for VME:
> *
> @@ -735,12 +735,6 @@ static int __init vme_user_init(void)
>
> pr_info("VME User Space Access Driver\n");
>
> - if (bus_num == 0) {
> - pr_err("No cards, skipping registration\n");
> - retval = -ENODEV;
> - goto err_nocard;
> - }
> -
> /* Let's start by supporting one bus, we can support more than one
> * in future revisions if that ever becomes necessary.
> */
> @@ -763,7 +757,6 @@ static int __init vme_user_init(void)
> return retval;
>
> err_reg:
> -err_nocard:
> return retval;
> }
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>
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