Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error handling, fix bugs

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Cornelia Huck wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:53:48 -0400,
> Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
> 
>> The following change was checked into 'warnings' branch of
>> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/misc-2.6.git
>>
>> commit 5330916f5a11d8b7def46a6b3e14a831684032f5
>> Author: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
>> Date:   Wed Jul 18 01:41:29 2007 -0400
>>
>>     drivers/base/core: improve device_add() error handling, fix bugs
>>     
>>     * silence several warnings by handling sysfs_create_link() failure
>>     
>>     * re-order some operations in error handling, to precisely reverse
>>       the order of operations, i.e. unwind properly.
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
>>
>>  drivers/base/core.c |   46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>>  1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> Hm, what about driver-core-check-return-code-of-sysfs_create_link.patch
> (merged with ...-fix.patch) which has been in -mm for a while?

No idea, I didn't check there.   If someone else has a better patch... 
great!  Let's merge it :)

	Jeff