From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [KJ] Re: kernel-2.6.9: make sock_init() notice errors
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:01:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041215160106.GA5321@nd47.coderock.org> (raw)
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On 27/11/04 17:26 +0100, walter harms wrote:
> Hi list,
> by accident i found that that sock_init never checks the return code of
> called init functions. I have no idea why this is not done so i added
> only a printk() to inform the user about the problem.
> The function returns no error indicator. i left it this way.
I don't like this patch: it doesn't really do anything useful...
ie. if user runs out of memory on boot, he'll have other problems
than caring about sock_init failing somewhere.
Comments?
Also, there's still whitespace damage like:
> + ret=init_inodecache();
> + if ( ret < 0 ) {
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-12-15 16:01 Domen Puncer [this message]
2004-12-15 17:27 ` [KJ] Re: kernel-2.6.9: make sock_init() notice errors walter harms
2004-12-15 21:45 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2004-12-18 9:58 ` Domen Puncer
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