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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why is device_create_file __must_check?
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:26:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061009222641.96c4acb5.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17707.11292.661824.337474@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 15:14:04 +1000
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> > Because it can fail.  We need to take _some_ action if the setup failed - at
> > least report it so the user (and the kernel developers) know that something
> > is going wrong.
> 
> So we have to add printks in all sorts of places where the
> device_create_file has never failed before.  If you're that concerned,

aren't you concerned too?

> why not add a WARN_ON(error) in device_create_file() ?

That might be suitable, yup.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-10  5:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-10  4:32 Paul Mackerras
2006-10-10  4:49 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-10  5:04   ` Greg KH
2006-10-10  5:14   ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-10  5:26     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-10-10  7:03       ` Paul Mackerras
2006-10-10  5:27     ` Greg KH

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