It's not needed.

Currently if __pci_device_probe locates the correct
device driver, but receives an error from the static
drv->probe function, this error is not reported.

The attached patch reports the above error condition
to the caller.  Only when a match for the device in
the static tables is not found, is the dynamic driver
table searched.

The following patch has been floating around forever.  It is required
for several ARM framebuffer drivers, and several other drivers.  James
has indicated that this is the correct fix back in May.

This provides the necessary infrastructure for PowerMac specific drivers
(and actually some Open Firmware platform drivers on non-PowerMacs as
well provided somebody port them) to be properly probed & referenced via
the new driver model and be part of sysfs.

As-is, this patch doesn't break anything nor change any driver.  I'll
send you individual driver patches as I clean them up & get them tested
on as many machines as possible, though I don't expect much problems.

While reviewing my 2.4 backport of the 2.6 cpu capabilities (including
the Via RNG support), Mikael Pettersson noticed a bug in both my
backport, and 2.6:  when NCAPINTS (x86_capability array size) is
increased, one must adjust the offset in arch/i386/kernel/head.S also.

Contributed by Mikael Pettersson.

This makes the HISAX ST5481 driver build again with 2.6.0-test3 where
the usb_host_config structure has changed.

some small clean-ups: do correct errorhandling

added WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctls
made timeout (the emulated heartbeat) a module_param
made the keepalive ping an internal subroutine

add CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT support
changed watchdog_info to correctly reflect what the driver offers
added WDIOC_GETSTATUS, WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS and WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctls
use module_param

cleanup comments and trailing spaces
eliminate extra spin_unlock
add KERN_* tags to printks
added extra printk's to report what problem occured

some small clean-ups (use PFX + report default timeout as it's value in the MODULE_PARM_DESC)

some last clean-ups

added extra printk's to report what problem occured

make wdt_stop and wdt_start module params

report default timeout as a number

general cleanup of trailing spaces and comments
fix possible wdt_is_open race
add KERN_* to printk's
changed watchdog_info to correctly reflect what the driver offers
added WDIOC_GETSTATUS, WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS, WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT, WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT, and WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctls
made timeout (the emulated heartbeat) a module_param
made the keepalive ping an internal subroutine
added MODULE_AUTHOR and MODULE_DESCRIPTION info

Contributed by VIA, via Jean Tourrilhes.

ir260_tekram-sir.diff :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		<Patch from Martin Diehl>
	o [CORRECT] Update tekram-sir dongle driver to common power-settling

ir260_usb_probe-4.diff :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		<Patch from Oliver Neukum and Daniele Bellucci>
	o [CORRECT] minor fix to the probe failure path of irda-usb.

ir260_lap_retry_count.diff :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	o [CORRECT] add interoperability workaround for 2.4.X IrDA stacks

ir260_donau_cleanup.diff :
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
		<Patch from Christian Gennerat>
	o [CORRECT] Disable chip probing that fail too often
	o [FEATURE] Cleanup STATIC

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/pci-2.6

Bug #1 (found by Jay Estabrook).
On Alpha, under certain circumstances the firmware may close the IO
window of PCI-to-PCI bridge even if there is IO behind.
This wouldn't be a problem - linux PCI setup code does set up this
window properly, but in addition the firmware clears the IO-enable
bit in the PCI_COMMAND register of the bridge.
Since we don't call pci_enable_* routines for bridges in non-hotplug
path, we end up with disabled IO. Fixed by adding pci_enable_bridges()
to pci_assign_unassigned_resources().
Architectures which don't use the latter, but do use other setup-bus
code (parisc?) also should call pci_enable_bridges() for each root bus.

Bug #2 (closely related to #1).
As it turns out, pci_enable_device() doesn't work for bridges at all,
only for regular devices (header type 0) due to 0x3f mask passed to
pci_enable_device_bars(). The mask should be (1 << PCI_NUM_RESOURCES) - 1.

Bug #3 (quite a few archs, including i386).
pcibios_enable_device() does only check first 6 resources (regardless
of the mask) to decide whether or not to enable IO and MEM.
Bridge resources start at 7.

#2 and #3 affect hotplug. I wonder, has anybody ever tried *bridged*
PCI card behind a hot-plug controller?

into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/gregkh-2.6

  This patch adds another P4B motherboard subsystem identifier to the recent
asus sensor patch for the 2.6 kernel.

This patch adds support for ID TECH's IDT1221U USB to RS-232 adapter
(intended for use and/or supplied with some of their magnetic/smart
card readers).  The VID and PID were provided by Steve Briggs on
the ftdi-usb-sio-devel list.

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:22:44PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:11:45PM +0200, Wiktor Wodecki wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I just saw that I2C provides "/sys/bus/i2c/drivers/dev\ driver" in
> > 2.6.0-test2. It would be nice if you'd consider renaming this to
> > dev_driver, to avoid un-neccessary quoting in scripts.
> >
> > Thank You :-)
>
> Patches are always gladly accepted :)

here you go

There was no release function for the objects.
bad greg, no biscuit...

This is because the name field of struct device is going away, and the name
fields on these i2c structures are useful for people.

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

This is a port of some smp fixes I did for 2.4 floppy.c

Andrew did the re-diffing.

This removes some function stubs from 6 watchdog drivers.

The VFS already returns -EINVAL in cases where fop->read == NULL, so
there's no need to duplicate the code 6 times.  This patch removes the
stubs and is compile tested.

From Matt Tolentino:

  Here's a small patch to change several data types from u64 to
  unsigned long in efi.h.  These changes enable the use of the
  same data structures and function prototypes for ia32 EFI kernels.