> > Why would I prevent the framebuffer from initializing (and thus a > > console to be displayed at all on many machines) just because for some > > reason, I couldn't create a pair of EDID files in sysfs that are not > > even very useful anymore ? > > Because there's a bug in your kernel. We don't hide and work around bugs.
But not initializing the fbdev will be much more effective at hiding the bug than just displaying a warning, which could just be done inside sysfs_create_file. Besides, in most cases, there is no bug. That is, there is no bug that will cause the file creation to fail and it will not fail. > Just fix the bugs, for heck's sake. Considering that in 99% of the case, the creation cannot fail unless some cosmic ray hit your machine or you are running oom... that is, plenty of cases where there is _no_ bug now gets a useless code bloat for checking a result code where there is nothing sane you can do about it anyway. 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/
