linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs

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Date:	Fri, 1 May 2009 12:26:25 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, greg@...ah.com, jblunck@...e.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] driver-core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev
 tmpfs

On Fri, 1 May 2009 13:16:22 +0200
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org> wrote:

> On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 07:29, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> 
> > dev->type->nodename() might have failed due to -ENOMEM, in which case
> > it seems wrong to assume that it returned NULL for <whatever reason you
> > thought it might want to return NULL>.
> >
> > It's all a bit confused.
> 
> This logic is only for providing a custom name hint. Only a few
> devices need that at all. If the allocation fails, the default name
> will be used, not the custom name.

But that's bad, isn't it?  It means that the kernel will come up with
one name if the memory allcoation succeeded, and a different name if
the allocation failed.

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