On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Now, we can talk about making those sysfs core functions generate warnings > > themselves, and we can talk about generating new wrappers around them which > > generate warnings and which return void, then migrating code over to use > > those. > > If the only valid reason to fail is a kernel bug, it damn well should be > that sysfs function itself that should complain. It's the only thing that > knows and cares.
That's pretty much what Paulus and I have been advocating all along. There -might- be a couple of cases where something has a good reason to do a call that may fail and want to test the result code. For those few rare cases (though none comes to mind at the moment), then I suppose we could provide some kind of _try version of the function (or whatever you want to call it) that doesn't warn and just returns an error. But as I said, I can't see any such case out of the blue. Cheers, Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
