Re: [Bug 2013] New: Oops from create_dir (sysfs)

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:27:22PM -0600, John Rose wrote:
> In the last couple of weeks, I've come across this crash a few times. 
> In each case, my code was kobject_add()'ing a kobject to a kset that
> already contained a kobject of the same name.
> 
> Granted that these additions reflected faulty logic on the part of my
> code, but I was suprised that kobject_add didn't have a more intelligent
> response than crashing while creating the redundant sysfs dir.
> 
> Thoughts?

The kobject code quickly pointed out the flaw in your code.  Sounds like
the proper response to me :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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