Re: [PATCH] led: simplify led_trigger_register_simple
From: Felipe Balbi
Date: Thu Nov 13 2008 - 14:11:17 EST
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 08:14:16PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:38:32PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > The simple triggers were designed to cause minimum interference to the
> > usually external subsystem code they were added into. As an example this
> > meant things like errors were just handled gracefully with a printk
> > warning and did not take down the whole subsystem. I therefore don't
> > regard this patch as a simplification, more a complication.
>
> That's a matter of changing the return ERR_PTR(err); back to a printk.
And here you are. I still think we should at least kfree(trigger) in
case of error, though.
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