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From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	ALSA development <alsa-devel@alsa-project.org>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz>,
	Castet Matthieu <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore bus_attach_device() retval
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:37:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061013083726.557b1fed@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0610121718110.8064-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:41:46 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I don't care too much one way or another.  Although missing symlinks might 
> cause problems for certain user programs.

Hm, yes, that might happen. I'll give it some more thought.

> No, I meant device_bind_driver().  Try to create the symlinks first, and 
> if that succeeds (or if you don't care when it fails) then call 
> driver_bound().  This confusion may be a result of looking at different 
> source trees.

Ah, ok, I was looking at current git.

> Do you want to write another patch?

I'll see what I can come up with.

-- 
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com

      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-13  6:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-04 20:22 [PATCH] ALSA: fix kernel panic in initialization of mpu401 driver Jiri Kosina
2006-10-05  8:07 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2006-10-05  9:57   ` Jiri Kosina
2006-10-05 14:02   ` Alan Stern
2006-10-05 14:16     ` Jaroslav Kysela
2006-10-05 17:58       ` Greg KH
2006-10-05 21:03         ` [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing Alan Stern
2006-10-06  7:53           ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-06  7:57             ` [PATCH] driver core: bus_attach_device() retval check Cornelia Huck
2006-10-06  9:41             ` [Alsa-devel] [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing Jaroslav Kysela
2006-10-06 11:14               ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-06 11:46                 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2006-10-06 18:12                 ` Alan Stern
2006-10-09 11:10                   ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-09 11:14                   ` [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore bus_attach_device() retval Cornelia Huck
2006-10-09 14:10                     ` Alan Stern
2006-10-11 14:49                     ` Alan Stern
2006-10-12  9:30                       ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-12 15:59                         ` Alan Stern
2006-10-12 17:17                           ` Cornelia Huck
2006-10-12 21:41                             ` Alan Stern
2006-10-13  6:37                               ` Cornelia Huck [this message]

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