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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] mm/shrinker: make unregister_shrinker() less fragile
On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 11:47:32AM +0900, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> Yes, but the main difference here is that it seems that shrinker users
> don't tend to treat shrinker registration failures as fatal errors and
> just continue with shrinker functionality disabled. And it makes sense.
>
> (copy paste from https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/7/9/751)
>

I hearily disagree. It's not any less critical than other failures.

The right way forward is to handle register failure properly.


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