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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Bug 2013] New: Oops from create_dir (sysfs)
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2004 12:48:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040204204811.GA3992@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1075926442.3026.37.camel@verve>

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:27:22PM -0600, John Rose wrote:
> In the last couple of weeks, I've come across this crash a few times. 
> In each case, my code was kobject_add()'ing a kobject to a kset that
> already contained a kobject of the same name.
> 
> Granted that these additions reflected faulty logic on the part of my
> code, but I was suprised that kobject_add didn't have a more intelligent
> response than crashing while creating the redundant sysfs dir.
> 
> Thoughts?

The kobject code quickly pointed out the flaw in your code.  Sounds like
the proper response to me :)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-04 20:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-04 20:27 [Bug 2013] New: Oops from create_dir (sysfs) John Rose
2004-02-04 20:48 ` Greg KH [this message]
2004-02-04 20:54   ` John Rose
2004-02-04 21:22     ` Greg KH
2004-02-04 21:43       ` John Rose
2004-02-04 22:00         ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-04 18:55 Martin J. Bligh

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