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SubjectRe: [PATCH] gpiolib: fix device_create() result check
On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:35:23 +0400
Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> wrote:

> In case of failure, device_create() returns not NULL but the error code.
> The current code checks for non-NULL though which causes kernel oops in
> sysfs_create_group() when device_create() fails. Check for error using
> IS_ERR() and propagate the error value using PTR_ERR() instead of fixed
> -ENODEV code returned now...

Does anyone notice any missing information here?

/**
* device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
* @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to
* @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any
* @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added
* @drvdata: the data to be added to the device for callbacks
* @fmt: string for the device's name
*
* This function can be used by char device classes. A struct device
* will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class.
*
* A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if
* the dev_t is not 0,0.
* If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created
* struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs.
* The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call.
* Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
* pointer.
*
* Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
* been created with a call to class_create().
*/


Why do we do this to ourselves?


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