Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs

Kay Sievers
2009-05-01T11:16:50Z

On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 07:29, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> dev->type->nodename() might have failed due to -ENOMEM, in which case
> it seems wrong to assume that it returned NULL for <whatever reason you
> thought it might want to return NULL>.
>
> It's all a bit confused.

This logic is only for providing a custom name hint. Only a few
devices need that at all. If the allocation fails, the default name
will be used, not the custom name.

Thanks,
Kay