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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check: add sysfs error handling
Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:00AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Handle errors thrown in disk_sysfs_symlinks(), and propagate back
>> to caller.
>>
>> The callers and associated functions don't do a real good job
>> of handling kobject errors anyway (add_partition, register_disk,
>> rescan_partitions), so this should do until something better comes
>> along.
>
> I'm not sure that failure to create these symlinks should be fatal,
> to be honest...

Fair enough, though FWIW the failure is almost always -EFAULT or
-ENOMEM, i.e. -ESYSTEMINTROUBLE...

Jeff



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