Commit 98d86d8
comedi: 8255: Fail to attach if fail to request I/O port region
The COMEDI standalone 8255 driver can be used to configure a COMEDI
device consisting of one of more subdevices, each using an 8255 digital
I/O chip mapped to a range of port I/O addresses. The base port I/O
address of each chip is specified in an array of integer option values
by the `COMEDI_DEVCONFIG` ioctl.
When support for multiple 8255 subdevices per device was added in the
out-of-tree comedi 0.7.27 back in 1999, if any port I/O region could not
be requested, then the corresponding subdevice was set to be an "unused"
subdevice, and the COMEDI device would still be set-up OK as long as
those were the only types of errors. That has persisted until the
present day, but seems a bit odd in retrospect. All the other COMEDI
drivers that use port I/O or memory regions will fail to set up the
device if any region cannot be requested. It seems unlikely that the
sys admin would deliberately choose a port that cannot be requested just
to leave a gap in the device's usable subdevice numbers, and failing to
set-up the device will provide a more noticeable indication that
something hasn't been set-up correctly, so change the driver to fail to
set up the device if any of the port I/O regions cannot be requested.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251028112833.15033-1-abbotti@mev.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>1 parent 2402f95 commit 98d86d8
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