On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 11:22 +0100, Rolf Offermanns wrote:
> On Thursday 03 February 2005 23:17, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> >
> > Do not register interfaces that you know aren't populated...
> >
> > One thing is, the wait code does explicitely check for a value of 0xff
> > and exists in this case (assuming this means no HW at all is wired
> > there). So for some reason, you interface is returning something else,
> > it would be interesting to "see" what value you are getting.

> It's 0xff like you guessed in the first reply. As soon, as I connect a drive 
> (no need to turn it on actually), everything is fine.

Well, that's strange then, since the code is explicitely returning
-ENODEV when it encounters that, maybe the caller isn't properly testing
for the error, I'll have to double check. (Can't today)

Ben.


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