linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] devmem: Handle class

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Message-ID: <20100402165324.GD32081@suse.de>
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:53:24 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devmem: Handle class_create() failure

On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:29:20PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would
> fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would
> fail.
> 
> While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of
> oopsing.

Is this something that we need for .34?  How were you getting this to
fail in the first place?

thanks,

greg k-h
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