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authorJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2008-07-17 15:21:29 -0700
committerJoel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>2008-07-17 15:21:29 -0700
commita6795e9ebb420d87af43789174689af0d66d1d35 (patch)
treefb2a86ad010015fdd311f3b7f6ef30f60c14b8f7 /Documentation/filesystems/configfs
parentf89ab8619e5320cc9c2576f5f8dcbaf6c0ba3950 (diff)
downloadlinux-a6795e9ebb420d87af43789174689af0d66d1d35.tar.bz2
configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
The configfs operations ->make_item() and ->make_group() currently return a new item/group. A return of NULL signifies an error. Because of this, -ENOMEM is the only return code bubbled up the stack. Multiple folks have requested the ability to return specific error codes when these operations fail. This patch adds that ability by changing the ->make_item/group() ops to return ERR_PTR() values. These errors are bubbled up appropriately. NULL returns are changed to -ENOMEM for compatibility. Also updated are the in-kernel users of configfs. This is a rework of reverted commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/filesystems/configfs')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c
index 25151fd5c2c6..039648791701 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs_example.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ static struct config_item *simple_children_make_item(struct config_group *group,
simple_child = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_child), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!simple_child)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
config_item_init_type_name(&simple_child->item, name,
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ static struct config_group *group_children_make_group(struct config_group *group
simple_children = kzalloc(sizeof(struct simple_children),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!simple_children)
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
config_group_init_type_name(&simple_children->group, name,