linux-kernel - Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare

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Date:	Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:16:13 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Olivier Galibert <galibert@...ox.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs file creation result nightmare

> Beware that sysfs_remove_bin_file() will complain loudly if you later
> attempt to delete that file that was never created.

That's another problem... what is a driver that creates 15 files
supposed to do ? Have 15 booleans to remember which files where
successfully created and then test all of them on cleanup ? That sounds
like even more bloat to me...

What about making sysfs_remove_bin_file() not complain ? It's common
practice to have disposal things not complain ... like kfree(NULL), or
the changes done recently so that misc_deregister() can be called even
if misc_register() failed etc...

Ben.

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