linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes

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Message-ID: <20061005154521.05157c17@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:45:21 +0200
From:	Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@...el.com>,
	Nathan Lynch <nathanl@...tin.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:20:06 +0200,
Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com> wrote:

> This is initcall stuff. The only sane reason why this would fail, would
> be an out of memory situation . If we are that early short on memory, we
> are in serious trouble anyway. So I doubt it's worth the extra code.

OK, at this stage -ENOMEM sounds like the only possiblilty. Agreed.
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