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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2009 13:16:22 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs
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On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 07:29, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> dev->type->nodename() might have failed due to -ENOMEM, in which case
> it seems wrong to assume that it returned NULL for <whatever reason you
> thought it might want to return NULL>.
>
> It's all a bit confused.

This logic is only for providing a custom name hint. Only a few
devices need that at all. If the allocation fails, the default name
will be used, not the custom name.

Thanks,
Kay