From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>,
Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] PCI: check the return value of device_create_bin_file() in pci_create_bus()
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:30:26 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1218069026.7900.0.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080806233018.GG10636@verge.net.au>
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On Thu, 2008-08-07 at 09:30 +1000, Simon Horman wrote:
> Check the return value of device_create_bin_file in pci_create_bus and
> unwind if necessary. Don't propagate error to caller, as failure to create
> these files shouldn't prevent PCI from being initialised.
>
> Cc: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@stealer.net>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
I hate to prolong the pain, but wasn't the plan to print a big fat
warning so that it's clear the system is not 100% happy.
cheers
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-07 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-05 10:16 [patch] PCI: check the return value of device_create_bin_file() in pci_create_bus() Simon Horman
2008-08-05 10:33 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-08-05 10:39 ` Sven Wegener
2008-08-05 11:00 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-05 11:14 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-05 11:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-05 12:15 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-05 12:26 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 0:57 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-06 13:19 ` Matthew Wilcox
2008-08-06 23:25 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-06 23:30 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-07 0:30 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
2008-08-07 1:06 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-07 4:56 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-07 16:50 ` Jesse Barnes
2008-08-07 22:59 ` Simon Horman
2008-08-05 13:21 ` Sven Wegener
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