Re: [PATCH] fs/partitions/check: add sysfs error handling

[Jeff Garzik]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 08:19:00AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Handle errors thrown in disk_sysfs_symlinks(), and propagate back
> > to caller.
> >
> > The callers and associated functions don't do a real good job
> > of handling kobject errors anyway (add_partition, register_disk,
> > rescan_partitions), so this should do until something better comes
> > along.
>
> I'm not sure that failure to create these symlinks should be fatal,
> to be honest...

Fair enough, though FWIW the failure is almost always -EFAULT or 
-ENOMEM, i.e. -ESYSTEMINTROUBLE...

	Jeff



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