linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] backing-dev: Handle class

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Message-ID: <20100402074628.GB23510@kernel.dk>
Date:	Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:46:29 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] backing-dev: Handle class_create() failure

On Fri, Apr 02 2010, 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.

Thanks Anton, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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