Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 May 2007 19:22:24 +0200 | From | Cornelia Huck <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1 |
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On Mon, 28 May 2007 00:41:19 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> wrote:
> Cornelia, > in the patch is: > + if (dev->kobj.parent == &dev->class->subsys.kobj) > + return 0; > > which will skip the creation of the "device"-link, right?
Uh, looking at the code again, this doesn't seem to be what I wanted :(
> But still, I don't think the transaction-style of error handling is > what we want, it's for some critical subsystems the equivalent of > adding PANIC(), and this just for a failing symlink-creation. I think > we just want to print the to the logs, and not let the whole core > device registration fail entirely.
Hm, but failure to create a symlink usually signifies something's really wrong (no memory, or an object is there which shouldn't)? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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