Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (gpio-fan) Fix fan_ctrl_init error path

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On Tue, 2010-11-09 at 03:41 -0500, Axel Lin wrote:
> In current implementation, the sysfs entries is not removed before return -ENODEV.
> 
> Creating the sysfs attribute should be the last thing done by the function,
> after all the rest has been successful.
> Otherwise there is a small window during which user-space can access the attribute
> but the driver isn't ready to deal with the requests.
> 
> Fix it by moving sysfs_create_group to be the last thing done by the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter



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