Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 09:53:24 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
       Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] devmem: Handle class_create() failure
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On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 06:29:20PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> 
> I hit this when we had a bug in IDR for a few days. Basically sysfs would
> fail to create new inodes since it uses an IDR and therefore class_create would
> fail.
> 
> While we are unlikely to see this fail we may as well handle it instead of
> oopsing.

Is this something that we need for .34?  How were you getting this to
fail in the first place?

thanks,

greg k-h
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