From: Jianjun Kong <jianjun@zeuux.org>
To: Michal Januszewski <michalj@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: process failure of sysfs_create_group()
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 21:30:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081111133041.GA10576@ubuntu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d9b736f0811110205q719ad246t81cc00fd9997b10@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:05:15AM +0100, Michal Januszewski wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 22:30, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>
>>> When fail to call sysfs_create_group(), it should recycle resources and return the error.
>>> This patch fix for processing failure of sysfs_create_group().
>>
>> IIRC, the reasoning behind the current code is that a failure to create sysfs
>> entries is not critical, as it doesn't impact the correct functioning of the
>> core of the driver.
>
>That's correct -- that was exactly my reasoning behind this code.
Thanks for your confirm.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-11 13:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-10 10:53 [PATCH] drivers: process failure of sysfs_create_group() Jianjun Kong
2008-11-10 21:30 ` [Linux-fbdev-devel] " Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-11-11 10:05 ` Michal Januszewski
2008-11-11 13:30 ` Jianjun Kong [this message]
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