[patch 1/1] Audit return code : drivers/macintosh/apm_emu.c

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Fri Jul 1 10:51:57 EST 2005


On Fri, 2005-07-01 at 10:27 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> On Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:03:50 +0200 domen at coderock.org wrote:
> >
> > From: Christophe Lucas <clucas at rotomalug.org>
> > 
> > 
> > Audit return codes (and handle failure correctly) for misc_register.
> 
> This patch was rejected against arch/i386/kernel/apm.c since the driver
> can still do useful things even if the misc_register fails.  (I don't know
> if this is true for the ppc emulation, just a note).

Yes same for ppc, we still have the /proc entry which is useful.

Ben.





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