Re: USB host drivers test results (2.5.19) and problem.
Brad Hards (bhards@bigpond.net.au)
Sat, 1 Jun 2002 08:41:55 +1000
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002 01:07, Stelian Pop wrote:
> However, maybe even a hotplug aware driver should print out a message
> upon initialization telling 'no hardware found'... It could be useful
> when you want to know the difference between:
> * bad driver, use another one
> * good driver, but doesn't recognize/init the hardware because it's buggy.
Even if you have the driver compiled in, and there is no hotplug, you still
don't want every driver complaining about not having suitable hardware. Think
distribution kernels (or "kernel that handles my heterogenous lab") and
network device drivers...
Brad
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