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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:53:48 -0400,
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

> 
> The following change was checked into 'warnings' branch of
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
> 
> commit 5330916f5a11d8b7def46a6b3e14a831684032f5
> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> Date:   Wed Jul 18 01:41:29 2007 -0400
> 
>     drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error handling, fix bugs
>     
>     * silence several warnings by handling sysfs_create_link() failure
>     
>     * re-order some operations in error handling, to precisely reverse
>       the order of operations, i.e. unwind properly.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
> 
>  drivers/base/core.c |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Hm, what about driver-core-check-return-code-of-sysfs_create_link.patch
(merged with ...-fix.patch) which has been in -mm for a while?