From: "Michal Januszewski" <michalj@gmail.com>
To: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: "Jianjun Kong" <jianjun@zeuux.org>,
linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Linux-Kernel-Mailing-List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] drivers: process failure of sysfs_create_group()
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:05:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d9b736f0811110205q719ad246t81cc00fd9997b10@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0811102229170.19341@anakin>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 22:30, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> When fail to call sysfs_create_group(), it should recycle resources and return the error.
>> This patch fix for processing failure of sysfs_create_group().
>
> IIRC, the reasoning behind the current code is that a failure to create sysfs
> entries is not critical, as it doesn't impact the correct functioning of the
> core of the driver.
That's correct -- that was exactly my reasoning behind this code.
--
Michal Januszewski, Gentoo Linux Developer
http://people.gentoo.org/spock
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2008-11-10 10:53 Jianjun Kong
2008-11-10 21:30 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-11 10:05 ` Michal Januszewski [this message]
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