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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devmem: Handle class_create() failure
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:53:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100402165324.GD32081@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100402072920.GH5594@kryten>

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:29:20PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would
> fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would
> fail.
> 
> While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of
> oopsing.

Is this something that we need for .34?  How were you getting this to
fail in the first place?

thanks,

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-02 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-02  7:29 [PATCH] devmem: Handle class_create() failure Anton Blanchard
2010-04-02  7:36 ` Wu Fengguang
2010-04-02 16:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-04-03  2:03   ` Anton Blanchard

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