> > Why would I prevent the framebuffer from initializing (and thus a
> > console to be displayed at all on many machines) just because for some
> > reason, I couldn't create a pair of EDID files in sysfs that are not
> > even very useful anymore ?
>
> Because there's a bug in your kernel. We don't hide and work around bugs.
But not initializing the fbdev will be much more effective at hiding the
bug than just displaying a warning, which could just be done inside
sysfs_create_file.
Besides, in most cases, there is no bug. That is, there is no bug that
will cause the file creation to fail and it will not fail.
> Just fix the bugs, for heck's sake.
Considering that in 99% of the case, the creation cannot fail unless
some cosmic ray hit your machine or you are running oom... that is,
plenty of cases where there is _no_ bug now gets a useless code bloat
for checking a result code where there is nothing sane you can do about
it anyway.
Ben.
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