linux-kernel - Re: kobject_uevent() question

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Date:	Sun, 10 Dec 2006 22:34:17 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
CC:	kernelnewbies@...linux.org
Subject: Re: kobject_uevent() question

Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:38:01PM +0000, Mauricio Lin wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> It is working now. The failure was in the kobject_uevent() function. As
>> the kset of my kobject was not set properly, the kobject_uevent()
>> function just returned void.
>>
>> I wonder why the kobjec_uevent() does not return an integer to indicate
>> if the operation was completed with success or not.
> 
> Feel free to send patches fixing this issue :)
> 
> thanks,
> 
> 

Something like this ?

-aneesh

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