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Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:46:29 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure
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On Fri, Apr 02 2010, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would
> fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would
> fail.
> 
> While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of
> oopsing.

Thanks Anton, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe