Re: post 2.6.28 regression: device_initialize() now sleeps, and mayfail without recovery strategy

[Alan Cox]

> It dies a flaming horrible death, pretty much like the whole rest of the
> system if allocating such a small ammount of memory is causing failures
> :)

Now and then I run tests with kmalloc set to randomly fail - the kernel
is suprisingly robust these days.

> Give me a few hours to test here, your change might not be necessary...

The alternative is pretty horrible - mark the function as int and
requiring a return check then start propogating it out and weep at the
gcc warnings...
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