Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 15:12:14 +0200 (MET DST) From: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: snd driver attach routine Message-ID: <199707141312.PAA10835@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <199707141156.VAA05457@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Jul 14, 97 09:56:12 pm
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> >The reality (i.e. isa and pci) suggest that the attach routine should > >not report failures to the calling routine. > > Failure is possible, so it should be reported and tested for. This is > more important for LKM'ed drivers. Even malloc() failures are not > unlikely after the the system has been running for a while. this is an issue for the core team I guess... as well as defining a standard for reporting errors in the attach routine. The changes would have to go in i386/isa/isa.c and pci/pci.c and perhaps in other places as well. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________
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