On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:

> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> > index 296d499..46ebf06 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> > @@ -1133,6 +1133,8 @@ static int mt_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const 
> > struct hid_device_id *id)
> >             return ret;
> >  
> >     ret = sysfs_create_group(&hdev->dev.kobj, &mt_attribute_group);
> > +   if (ret)
> > +           return ret;
> 
> I am not particularly happy with a hard failure here in case the sysfs
> group doesn't bind. The group is mainly used for debug, and I am not
> sure anybody but me uses it nowadays.
> 
> Could you amend the patch to put a warning in case of a failure but
> still continue?

Yeah. And also in case of hard failure, some cleanup would have to be done 
anyway (hid_hw_start() has already happened, etc).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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