linux-kernel - [PATCH] sysfs: don't warn on removal of a nonexistent binary file

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Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:13:06 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] sysfs: don't warn on removal of a nonexistent binary file

This patch (as960) removes the error message and stack dump logged by
sysfs_remove_bin_file() when someone tries to remove a nonexistent
file.  The warning doesn't seem to be needed, since none of the other
file-, symlink-, or directory-removal routines in sysfs complain in a
comparable way.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>

---

This is 2.6.23 material.  The spurious error message can be triggered
by USB code added since 2.6.22, so it needs to be removed before the 
final release.

Alan Stern



Index: usb-2.6/fs/sysfs/bin.c
===================================================================
--- usb-2.6.orig/fs/sysfs/bin.c
+++ usb-2.6/fs/sysfs/bin.c
@@ -248,12 +248,7 @@ int sysfs_create_bin_file(struct kobject
 
 void sysfs_remove_bin_file(struct kobject * kobj, struct bin_attribute * attr)
 {
-	if (sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, attr->attr.name) < 0) {
-		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: "
-			"bad dentry or inode or no such file: \"%s\"\n",
-			__FUNCTION__, attr->attr.name);
-		dump_stack();
-	}
+	sysfs_hash_and_remove(kobj->sd, attr->attr.name);
 }
 
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_create_bin_file);

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