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

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Oct 04 2006 - 08:27:00 EST


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...
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