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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_add_one tells you _where_ the duplicate file is
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:39:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090211223903.GA21100@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211202601.GC3402@ldl.fc.hp.com>

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 01:26:01PM -0700, Alex Chiang wrote:
> Give a better clue about where we might be creating duplicate
> files by displaying the parent's name as well.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
> ---
> It would be nice to get a full path, but simply printing out the
> parent is cheap and more useful than what we have now.

What happens if you don't have a parent?  will this oops if you are
creating a duplicate device in the root of the sysfs tree?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-11 20:26 [PATCH] sysfs: sysfs_add_one tells you _where_ the duplicate file is Alex Chiang
2009-02-11 22:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-02-12  2:56   ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12  3:02     ` Greg KH
2009-02-12  7:02       ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12  9:05         ` Kay Sievers
2009-02-12 16:02           ` Greg KH
2009-02-12 17:38             ` Alex Chiang
2009-02-12 17:41               ` Greg KH
2009-02-12 17:56                 ` Alex Chiang

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