Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH 12/16] cell: add temperature to SPU and CPU sysfs entries

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:19:02 +1000

On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:35 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thursday 26 October 2006 01:19, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > > 
> > > Will crash if cpu_add_sysdev_attr_group failed...
> > 
> > 
> > Which is a total PITA. If this is the case, then we should modify the
> > add calls to at least initialize enough fields before they can fail for
> > the remove calls not to crash. You don't want to keep track precisely of
> > what file was added and what not and test all of that in your exit code
> > path, it's just insane.
> 
> Heiko suggested that earlied in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/9/22,
> but Andrew didn't like it.
> 
> Currently, the worst is that sysfs_remove_file can be used
> on a nonexisting file,  but sysfs_remove_group cannot, which is
> inconsistent. Either sysfs_remove_file should WARN_ON or
> sysfs_remove_group should silently return, and I'd prefer the
> latter, as it makes users simpler.

We need to argue with Andrew then. I'll have a go tomorrow

Ben.