From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758292AbWLIVo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:44:57 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758281AbWLIVo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:44:57 -0500 Received: from dspnet.fr.eu.org ([213.186.44.138]:3875 "EHLO dspnet.fr.eu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758272AbWLIVo5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 9 Dec 2006 16:44:57 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:44:53 +0100 From: Olivier Galibert To: Andrew Morton Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jean Delvare , Paul Mackerras , Linux Kernel list Subject: Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings) Message-ID: <20061209214453.GA69320@dspnet.fr.eu.org> Mail-Followup-To: Olivier Galibert , Andrew Morton , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Jean Delvare , Paul Mackerras , Linux Kernel list References: <20061209165606.2f026a6c.khali@linux-fr.org> <1165694351.1103.133.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20061209123817.f0117ad6.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061209123817.f0117ad6.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:38:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:59:10 +1100 > Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Why would I prevent the framebuffer from initializing (and thus a > > console to be displayed at all on many machines) just because for some > > reason, I couldn't create a pair of EDID files in sysfs that are not > > even very useful anymore ? > > Because there's a bug in your kernel. We don't hide and work around bugs. Hmmm, I don't understand. Which is the bug, having a sysfs file creation fail or going on if it happens? OG.