Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750919AbWJENov (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:44:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750920AbWJENov (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:44:51 -0400 Received: from mtagate6.de.ibm.com ([195.212.29.155]:1873 "EHLO mtagate6.de.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750918AbWJENov (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 09:44:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:45:21 +0200 From: Cornelia Huck To: Heiko Carstens Cc: Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , LKML , Ashok Raj , Nathan Lynch Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/base: error handling fixes Message-ID: <20061005154521.05157c17@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20061005132006.GD6920@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> References: <20061004130554.GA25974@havoc.gtf.org> <20061004172434.1a2ddb71@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20061005081705.GA6920@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <4524E983.6010208@garzik.org> <20061005124848.GB6920@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20061005151546.31b73ab5@gondolin.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20061005132006.GD6920@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.5.0-rc3 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 619 Lines: 13 On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:20:06 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote: > This is initcall stuff. The only sane reason why this would fail, would > be an out of memory situation . If we are that early short on memory, we > are in serious trouble anyway. So I doubt it's worth the extra code. OK, at this stage -ENOMEM sounds like the only possiblilty. Agreed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/