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SubjectRe: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] drivers: process failure of sysfs_create_group()
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 22:30, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:

>> When fail to call sysfs_create_group(), it should recycle resources and return the error.
>> This patch fix for processing failure of sysfs_create_group().
>
> IIRC, the reasoning behind the current code is that a failure to create sysfs
> entries is not critical, as it doesn't impact the correct functioning of the
> core of the driver.

That's correct -- that was exactly my reasoning behind this code.

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Michal Januszewski, Gentoo Linux Developer
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