Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:37:26 +0200
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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       Castet Matthieu <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
       Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Driver core: Don't ignore bus_attach_device() retval
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:41:46 -0400 (EDT),
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

> I don't care too much one way or another.  Although missing symlinks might 
> cause problems for certain user programs.

Hm, yes, that might happen. I'll give it some more thought.

> No, I meant device_bind_driver().  Try to create the symlinks first, and 
> if that succeeds (or if you don't care when it fails) then call 
> driver_bound().  This confusion may be a result of looking at different 
> source trees.

Ah, ok, I was looking at current git.

> Do you want to write another patch?

I'll see what I can come up with.

-- 
Cornelia Huck
Linux for zSeries Developer
Tel.: +49-7031-16-4837, Mail: cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com
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