Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

[Thomas Dodd]

Alan Cox wrote:
> 
> Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an
> implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar
> so that it is runtime

This seamed to work here.

        -Thomas
diff -u --new-file --recursive linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c 
linux-2.4.3-ac2/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c
--- linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c Wed Apr  4 15:23:15 2001
+++ linux-2.4.3-ac2/drivers/usb/usb-ohci.c      Thu Apr  5 14:02:08 2001
@@ -92,6 +92,10 @@
 static LIST_HEAD (ohci_hcd_list);
 static spinlock_t usb_ed_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
 
+static int overrideBlacklist = 0;
+MODULE_PARM(overrideBlacklist, "i");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(overrideBlacklist, " override blacklisted controlers");
+
 /*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*
  * URB support functions 
  *-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ 
@@ -2333,12 +2337,13 @@
        void *mem_base;
 
        /* blacklisted hardware? */
-       if (id->driver_data) {
-               info ("%s (%s): %s", dev->slot_name,
+       if (overrideBlacklist != 1){
+               if (id->driver_data) {
+                       info ("%s (%s): %s", dev->slot_name,
                        dev->name, (char *) id->driver_data);
                return -ENODEV;
+               }
        }
-
        if (pci_enable_device(dev) < 0)
                return -ENODEV;