Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Kurtz <> | Date | Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:34:14 +0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 04/23 v6] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - warn if sysfs could not be created |
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On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 3:15 AM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:22:30AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> Hi Daniel, Henrik, >> >> On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:08:05PM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote: >> > If sysfs entry creation fails, the driver is still usable, so don't >> > just abort probe. Just warn and continue. >> > >> >> I understand that I am a bit late to the party :) but I do not agree >> with this change. Failure to create attributes is not sometihng that >> user could cause (at least not easily) and thus would not be a setup >> issue but something more severe. I believe we should fail loading the >> driver so sysfs attribute breakage will be noticed as soon as possible, >> instead of discovering it much much later in the process. >> >> So I think we should revert this one. > > Ok, I agree. Applied and pushed. > > Daniel, I should probably have asked this before: what was the reason > for this patch in the first place? > > Thanks, > Henrik
No additional reason beyond what is stated in the commit message - that the driver is still usable without its sysfs entries, so no need to abort probe.
I'm fine with reverting back to the fail fast approach, too.
Thanks, Daniel
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