linux-kernel - Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may fail without recovery strategy

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:24:00 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Jay Fenlason <fenlason@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and may
 fail without recovery strategy

> It dies a flaming horrible death, pretty much like the whole rest of the
> system if allocating such a small ammount of memory is causing failures
> :)

Now and then I run tests with kmalloc set to randomly fail - the kernel
is suprisingly robust these days.

> Give me a few hours to test here, your change might not be necessary...

The alternative is pretty horrible - mark the function as int and
requiring a return check then start propogating it out and weep at the
gcc warnings...
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