On Tue, 17 Jun 2014, Greg KH wrote: > Who really cares about that? What can do you do with that additional > information that will help anything out?
The obvious reason for doing so is so that one can put the error code into a log message to get more detailed information on why the call failed. In this particular case the slab allocator can give an error message that gives a hint why the sysfs support could not be enabled. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/