Re: [-mm3 PATCH] (Retry) Check the return value of kobject_add and etc.

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Sun Apr 01 2007 - 09:46:31 EST


On 4/1/07, Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>- kobject_add(&p->kobj);
>+ if (kobject_add(&p->kobj)) {
>+ kfree(p);
>+ return;

Please add a printk warning before the return statement to log a
proper warning stating what happened, which file and line etc. That
way people can know why something did not work as expected and
hopefully do something about it.

Never mind - kobject_add() is already verbose enough when it fails.

Parag
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