On Mon, 28 May 2007 00:41:19 +0200,
"Kay Sievers" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Cornelia,
> in the patch is:
> + if (dev->kobj.parent == &dev->class->subsys.kobj)
> + return 0;
>
> which will skip the creation of the "device"-link, right?
Uh, looking at the code again, this doesn't seem to be what I wanted :(
> But still, I don't think the transaction-style of error handling is
> what we want, it's for some critical subsystems the equivalent of
> adding PANIC(), and this just for a failing symlink-creation. I think
> we just want to print the to the logs, and not let the whole core
> device registration fail entirely.
Hm, but failure to create a symlink usually signifies something's really
wrong (no memory, or an object is there which shouldn't)?
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