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SubjectRe: [patch] PCI: check the return value of device_create_bin_file() in pci_create_bus()
On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:28:14AM -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:14:07PM +1000, Simon Horman wrote:
> > Check the return value of device_create_bin_file in pci_create_bus,
> > unwind if necessary, and propagate any errors to the caller.
>
> Yes, but you're essentially saying here that if I can't create a couple
> of poxy sysfs files, I can't have this PCI bus at all? This seems like
> a bad decision to me. I'd rather have a PCI bus without the files than
> no PCI bus at all. By all means, we should whinge mightily if we can't
> create the files so the sysadmin has a chance of figuring out why things
> aren't quite working right, but I might have my root filesystem on a
> device on that PCI bus.

Are you suggesting just making pci_create_bus() have a big winge
using printk() but returning void regardless of what happens?
That sounds fine to me, though I guess it would also need to unwind
if the first call to device_create_bin_file() succeeds but the second
one doesn't.


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