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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] raw: return negative from raw_init()
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 23:34:19 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609112334.19998.dtor@insightbb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060912011918.GC5192@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru>

On Monday 11 September 2006 21:19, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/char/raw.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/char/raw.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/raw.c
> @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ static int __init raw_init(void)
>  
>  error:
>  	printk(KERN_ERR "error register raw device\n");
> -	return 1;
> +	return -1;
>  }
>  

How about reworking it a bit to pass true error code from the failed
call? Additionally class_device_create call is not checked for errors
there.  

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2006-09-12  3:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-12  1:19 [PATCH] raw: return negative from raw_init() Alexey Dobriyan
2006-09-12  3:34 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2006-09-14 21:31 ` Andrew Morton

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