Re: [PATCH 01/24] kobject: return actual error on kset_create_and_add

[Christoph Lameter]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote:

> Who really cares about that?  What can do you do with that additional
> information that will help anything out?

The obvious reason for doing so is so that one can put the error code into
a log message to get more detailed information on why the call failed.

In this particular case the slab allocator can give an error message that
gives a hint why the sysfs support could not be enabled.


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