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SubjectRe: [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
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