Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:36:00 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error handling, fix bugs |
| |
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 04:16:10AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Cornelia Huck wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:53:48 -0400, > > Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote: > >> The following change was checked into 'warnings' branch of > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git > >> > >> commit 5330916f5a11d8b7def46a6b3e14a831684032f5 > >> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> > >> Date: Wed Jul 18 01:41:29 2007 -0400 > >> > >> drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error handling, fix bugs > >> * silence several warnings by handling sysfs_create_link() failure > >> * re-order some operations in error handling, to precisely reverse > >> the order of operations, i.e. unwind properly. > >> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> > >> > >> drivers/base/core.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- > >> 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) > > Hm, what about driver-core-check-return-code-of-sysfs_create_link.patch > > (merged with ...-fix.patch) which has been in -mm for a while? > > No idea, I didn't check there. If someone else has a better patch... > great! Let's merge it :)
It's in my queue.
Or it should be, hm, Cornelia, can you resend it, I seem to have dropped it :(
thanks,
greg k-h - 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/
| |