linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

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Date:	Mon, 28 May 2007 00:41:19 +0200
From:	"Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@...y.org>
To:	"Tilman Schmidt" <tilman@...p.cc>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Cornelia Huck" <cornelia.huck@...ibm.com>,
	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1

On 5/28/07, Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
> Am 26.05.2007 18:01 schrieb Andrew Morton:
> > On Sat, 26 May 2007 17:59:15 +0200 Tilman Schmidt <tilman@...p.cc> wrote:
>
> >> This breaks network initialization on my SuSE 10.0 box [...]
> >
> > Thanks.  I think others have seen similar things and it was attributed to
> > driver-core-check-return-code-of-sysfs_create_link.patch.
>
> That's it. After reverting that patch, the Ethernet interface
> comes up fine again.

Cornelia,
in the patch is:
  +	if (dev->kobj.parent == &dev->class->subsys.kobj)
  +		return 0;

which will skip the creation of the "device"-link, right?

But still, I don't think the transaction-style of error handling is
what we want, it's for some critical subsystems the equivalent of
adding PANIC(), and this just for a failing symlink-creation. I think
we just want to print the to the logs, and not let the whole core
device registration fail entirely.

Thanks,
Kay
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