On Tue, 3 Aug 2010 Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote: > > Failure to create a file in sysfs is almost never fatal and usually not > > even dangerous. Ignoring the error is generally better than failing > > the entire operation. > > Then why the __must_check attribute if it's usually ignorable? I thought > that was reserved for functions that you damned sight better well check > for errors because bad things are afoot otherwise? That's a good question. Perhaps Greg KH knows the answer. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html