From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors)
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:53:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hc9kxpp8.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080817034051.GA26849@kroah.com> (Greg KH's message of "Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:40:51 -0700")
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> writes:
>> No!
>
> What you are doing here is wrong, trying to create two files with the
> same name. You just should not be doing that at all, it's that simple.
> Fix the broken code/link order, don't paper it over in the sysfs layer.
Sorry, but relying on link order for anything is a mistake. It is subtle
and fragile and just means it'll eventually break again because it's
near impossible to properly maintain.
The alternative is to always check if the file exists in the params.c
code before creating it. We can do that too, but it's somewhat dumb
because sysfs is already doing that.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-17 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-14 7:29 linux-next: Tree for August 14 Stephen Rothwell
2008-08-14 9:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2008-08-14 15:34 ` linux-next: Tree for August 14 (bug: cciss) Randy Dunlap
2008-08-14 15:38 ` linux-next: Tree for August 14 (sysfs/acpi errors) Randy Dunlap
2008-08-14 15:44 ` Greg KH
2008-08-15 2:56 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 3:09 ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-15 3:11 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-15 2:41 ` Zhang Rui
2008-08-15 2:46 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-15 11:27 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-15 15:58 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-08-16 2:36 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-16 2:57 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-16 3:19 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-16 3:48 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-16 4:47 ` Greg KH
2008-08-17 2:30 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-17 3:40 ` Greg KH
2008-08-17 3:53 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-08-18 3:48 ` Greg KH
2008-08-18 9:43 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-18 10:58 ` Kay Sievers
2008-08-17 5:13 ` Rusty Russell
2008-09-24 7:59 ` Len Brown
2008-09-25 2:39 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-16 3:47 ` Rusty Russell
2008-08-16 3:49 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-16 5:25 ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-08-16 5:56 ` Rusty Russell
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