From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings)
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 16:42:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4581C530.7010101@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061209135829.86038f32.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Generally speaking, if sysfs file creation went wrong, it's due to a bug.
> The result is that the driver isn't working as intended: tunables or
> instrumentation which it is designed to make available are not present. We
> want to know about that bug asap so we can get it fixed.
>
Failing to init the fb is certainly a good way to make sure the problem
isn't overlooked, but perhaps a bit shy in the area of letting the user
find out what the error was. Perhaps a warning would be better.
--
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061209165606.2f026a6c.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-09 19:59 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 20:22 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-09 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09 20:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 21:44 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-09 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09 22:34 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-09 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-10 0:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 14:47 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare Jean Delvare
2006-12-15 20:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-20 8:01 ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 9:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-11 2:46 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings) Paul Mackerras
2006-12-14 21:42 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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