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

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2014-06-17 at 11:29 -0500, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, James Bottomley wrote:
> 
> > What useful information does this supply?  The current assumption on
> > NULL return is -ENOMEM ... what's the interesting case where this
> > assumption is wrong?
> 
> No idea. Sysfs just ignored all error codes and returns NULL right now.
> If it is indeed just ENOMEN then we have no issue.

Well, I think when we have that justification, then we can decide on the
merits of the patch set.

James


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