linux-kernel - Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT

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Message-ID: <20080207074208.GA25071@suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:42:08 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kay.sievers@...y.org
Subject: Re: partition sysfs OOPS in current GIT

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:24:51PM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:20:30 -0800
> 
> > It's odd that the original one didn't also do that,
> 
> In the old code it would vector through part_sysfs_ops (look at how it
> works before the changeset), which returns 0 if the attribute lacked a
> ->show method.

Ah, yeah, what a fun hack...  Makes sense though.  The updated patch I
send you should do the same thing, just with an additional function
needed.

thanks,

greg k-h
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