On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:49:52 -0500,
James Manning <jmm@raleigh.ibm.com> wrote:
>I was thinking about the cases where request_module's return
>isn't checked... isn't this broken code and the calling code
>should be checking < 0 and return'ing -ENODEV (or similar)?
In most (all?) cases, the code checks a field that the module fills in.
This field indicates not only that the module was loaded but that it
did its work. Like this code from drivers/block/md.c.
if (!pers[pnum]) {
request_module("md-personality-%d", pnum);
if (!pers[pnum])
return -EINVAL;
}
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