Re: 2.6.21-rc4-mm1

[Cornelia Huck]

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 03:26:35 +0200,
Eric Rannaud <eric.rannaud@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The reason for that original patch was that it is actually possible for the
> uevent functions to return -ENOMEM, the uevent buffer being statically
> allocated to BUFFER_SIZE (2048).

So maybe -ENOMEM should still be propagated? We just don't want to fail
device_add because of it.

> It used to be 1024 but that was not
> always enough and it was doubled a while ago [1]. Using add_uevent_var()
> makes this less of a problem as such an overflow should be catched
> cleanly [2].

Reminds me that I need to look into ccw_uevent :)
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