linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check: add sysfs error handling

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Message-ID: <4523B2A8.6030509@garzik.org>
Date:	Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:10:00 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check: add sysfs error handling

Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:00AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> Handle errors thrown in disk_sysfs_symlinks(), and propagate back
>> to caller.
>>
>> The callers and associated functions don't do a real good job
>> of handling kobject errors anyway (add_partition, register_disk,
>> rescan_partitions), so this should do until something better comes
>> along.
> 
> I'm not sure that failure to create these symlinks should be fatal,
> to be honest...

Fair enough, though FWIW the failure is almost always -EFAULT or 
-ENOMEM, i.e. -ESYSTEMINTROUBLE...

	Jeff



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