From: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings)
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2006 22:44:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061209214453.GA69320@dspnet.fr.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061209123817.f0117ad6.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:38:17PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:59:10 +1100
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> > Why would I prevent the framebuffer from initializing (and thus a
> > console to be displayed at all on many machines) just because for some
> > reason, I couldn't create a pair of EDID files in sysfs that are not
> > even very useful anymore ?
>
> Because there's a bug in your kernel. We don't hide and work around bugs.
Hmmm, I don't understand. Which is the bug, having a sysfs file
creation fail or going on if it happens?
OG.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-09 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20061209165606.2f026a6c.khali@linux-fr.org>
2006-12-09 19:59 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings) Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 20:22 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2006-12-09 20:53 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 20:38 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09 20:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-09 21:44 ` Olivier Galibert [this message]
2006-12-09 21:58 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-09 22:34 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-12-09 22:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-10 0:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 14:47 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare Jean Delvare
2006-12-15 20:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-15 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-12-20 8:01 ` Greg KH
2006-12-20 9:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-12-11 2:46 ` sysfs file creation result nightmare (WAS radeonfb: Fix sysfs_create_bin_file warnings) Paul Mackerras
2006-12-14 21:42 ` Bill Davidsen
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