| | From | Kay Sievers <> | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2009 13:16:22 +0200 | | 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
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