Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:05:15 +0100 | From | "Michal Januszewski" <> | Subject | Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH] drivers: process failure of sysfs_create_group() |
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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.
-- Michal Januszewski, Gentoo Linux Developer http://people.gentoo.org/spock
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