From: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/24] kobject: return actual error on kset_create_and_add
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 09:54:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1403024089.1995.0.camel@jarvis> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1406171128540.20610@gentwo.org>
On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 11:29 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, James Bottomley wrote:
>
> > What useful information does this supply? The current assumption on
> > NULL return is -ENOMEM ... what's the interesting case where this
> > assumption is wrong?
>
> No idea. Sysfs just ignored all error codes and returns NULL right now.
> If it is indeed just ENOMEN then we have no issue.
Well, I think when we have that justification, then we can decide on the
merits of the patch set.
James
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-17 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-17 14:25 [PATCH 01/24] kobject: return actual error on kset_create_and_add Jeff Liu
2014-06-17 14:42 ` James Bottomley
2014-06-17 14:56 ` Jeff Liu
2014-06-17 15:50 ` Greg KH
2014-06-17 19:26 ` Greg KH
2014-06-18 1:40 ` Jeff Liu
2014-06-17 15:47 ` Greg KH
2014-06-17 16:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-17 16:09 ` James Bottomley
2014-06-17 16:29 ` Christoph Lameter
2014-06-17 16:54 ` James Bottomley [this message]
2014-06-17 19:21 ` Greg KH
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