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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-08-08 14:19:19 (GMT)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>2013-08-08 22:54:52 (GMT)
commit464c114717ae221202ebdbd9aa216035b4626f18 (patch)
tree52909cd2cb11e4294e8aa4f2e6f3943a0a0c27de /drivers/acpi
parent3342c753bdeb29ec29d721c7ce38d283cc969174 (diff)
downloadlinux-464c114717ae221202ebdbd9aa216035b4626f18.tar.xz
ACPI: Print diagnostic messages if device links cannot be created
Although the device links created by acpi_bind_one() are not essential from the kernel functionality point of view, user space may be confused when they are missing, so print diagnostic messages to the kernel log if they can't be created. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/acpi')
-rw-r--r--drivers/acpi/glue.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/glue.c b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
index f3ead0c..9467229 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/glue.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
@@ -252,8 +252,15 @@ int acpi_bind_one(struct device *dev, acpi_handle handle)
acpi_physnode_link_name(physical_node_name, node_id);
retval = sysfs_create_link(&acpi_dev->dev.kobj, &dev->kobj,
physical_node_name);
+ if (retval)
+ dev_err(&acpi_dev->dev, "Failed to create link %s (%d)\n",
+ physical_node_name, retval);
+
retval = sysfs_create_link(&dev->kobj, &acpi_dev->dev.kobj,
"firmware_node");
+ if (retval)
+ dev_err(dev, "Failed to create link firmware_node (%d)\n",
+ retval);
mutex_unlock(&acpi_dev->physical_node_lock);