Thread (28 messages) 28 messages, 3 authors, 2012-07-16

Re: [PATCH 04/23 v6] Input: atmel_mxt_ts - warn if sysfs could not be created

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Date: 2012-07-05 17:22:40
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Hi Daniel, Henrik,

On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 09:08:05PM +0800, Daniel Kurtz wrote:
If sysfs entry creation fails, the driver is still usable, so don't
just abort probe.  Just warn and continue.
I understand that I am a bit late to the party :) but I do not agree
with this change. Failure to create attributes is not sometihng that
user could cause (at least not easily) and thus would not be a setup
issue but something more severe. I believe we should fail loading the
driver so sysfs attribute breakage will be noticed as soon as possible,
instead of discovering it much much later in the process.

So I think we should revert this one.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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