linux-kernel - [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] radeonfb: check return value of sysfs_create_bin

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Date:	Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:53:28 +0200
From:	Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2.6.19-rc1] radeonfb: check return value of sysfs_create_bin_file

sysfs_create_bin_file() is marked as warn_unused_result but we don't
actually check the return value.
Error is not fatal, the driver can operate fine without the files so
just print a notice on failure.

Signed-off-by: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@...il.com>

---

 drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c |   15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c b/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
index 0ed577e..bc2aac6 100644
--- a/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
+++ b/drivers/video/aty/radeon_base.c
@@ -2313,10 +2313,17 @@ #endif
 	radeon_check_modes(rinfo, mode_option);
 
 	/* Register some sysfs stuff (should be done better) */
-	if (rinfo->mon1_EDID)
-		sysfs_create_bin_file(&rinfo->pdev->dev.kobj, &edid1_attr);
-	if (rinfo->mon2_EDID)
-		sysfs_create_bin_file(&rinfo->pdev->dev.kobj, &edid2_attr);
+	if (rinfo->mon1_EDID) {
+		if (sysfs_create_bin_file(&rinfo->pdev->dev.kobj, &edid1_attr))
+			printk(KERN_INFO "radeonfb (%s): failed to create edid1 file. "
+				"Continuing anyway.\n", pci_name(rinfo->pdev));
+	}
+
+	if (rinfo->mon2_EDID) {
+		if (sysfs_create_bin_file(&rinfo->pdev->dev.kobj, &edid2_attr))
+			printk(KERN_INFO "radeonfb (%s): failed to create edid2 file. "
+				"Continuing anyway.\n", pci_name(rinfo->pdev));
+	}
 
 	/* save current mode regs before we switch into the new one
 	 * so we can restore this upon __exit


Luca
-- 
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