Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757505AbYAFWMI (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:12:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754994AbYAFWL4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:11:56 -0500 Received: from netrider.rowland.org ([192.131.102.5]:2352 "HELO netrider.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754984AbYAFWLw (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:11:52 -0500 Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 17:11:50 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@netrider.rowland.org To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Len Brown , Ingo Molnar , ACPI Devel Maling List , LKML , pm list Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Acquire device locks on suspend In-Reply-To: <200801062005.12097.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 570 Lines: 17 On Sun, 6 Jan 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 6 of January 2008, Alan Stern wrote: > Still, shouldn't we fail the removal of the device apart from giving the > warning? We can't. device_del() can't fail -- it returns void. Besides, how can a driver hope to deal with an unregistration failure? Alan Stern -- 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/