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

From: Arnd Bergmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:35:00 +0200

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.

	Arnd <><