linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/22 v4] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - warn if sysfs could not be created

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Message-Id: <1339992522-22073-5-git-send-email-djkurtz@chromium.org>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:08:24 +0800
From:	Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@...omail.se>,
	Joonyoung Shim <jy0922.shim@...sung.com>,
	Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@...ev.co.uk>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Iiro Valkonen <iiro.valkonen@...el.com>,
	Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>,
	Yufeng Shen <miletus@...omium.org>,
	Olof Johansson <olofj@...omium.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
Subject: [PATCH 04/22 v4] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - warn if sysfs could not be created

If sysfs entry creation fails, the driver is still usable, so don't
just abort probe.  Just warn and continue.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kurtz <djkurtz@...omium.org>
---
 drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c b/drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c
index 00b37b1..0c49a1e 100644
--- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c
+++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/atmel_mxt_ts.c
@@ -1168,13 +1168,10 @@ static int __devinit mxt_probe(struct i2c_client *client,
 
 	error = sysfs_create_group(&client->dev.kobj, &mxt_attr_group);
 	if (error)
-		goto err_unregister_device;
+		dev_warn(&client->dev, "error creating sysfs entries.\n");
 
 	return 0;
 
-err_unregister_device:
-	input_unregister_device(input_dev);
-	input_dev = NULL;
 err_free_irq:
 	free_irq(client->irq, data);
 err_free_object:
-- 
1.7.7.3

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