On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 11:25:57 +0200, "Kay Sievers" <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > I don't see any point in deregistering a kernel device, if the event > to userspace goes wrong, or a subsytem returns a non-zero value in the > filter. But if we filter the event, we just return 0? > Checking the uevent return value, will not prevent any malfunction, > usually this kind of "error handling" just prevents bringing up a > whole subsystem, or booting-up a box, because the needed device does > not exist at all. OK, if we consider uevents to be non-vital to a functioning device. OTOH, I think using something like uevent_suppress (maybe via dev_uevent_filter?) is a saner way to suppress a uevent than to return an error code in the uevent function. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
