From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267649AbUBTAzE (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:55:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267636AbUBTAvy (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:51:54 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([65.200.24.183]:38049 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267626AbUBTAvb (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2004 19:51:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 16:23:28 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Tommi Virtanen , Leann Ogasawara , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] propogate errors from misc_register to caller Message-ID: <20040220002328.GE16267@kroah.com> References: <20040213102755.27cf4fcd.shemminger@osdl.org> <20040213112100.4f42abc2@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040213112100.4f42abc2@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:21:00AM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The patch to check for / in class_device is not enough. > The misc_register function needs to check return value of the things it calls! Applied to my trees, thanks. greg k-h