From: Dmitriy Monakhov This patch kills the "ignoring return value of 'device_create_file'" warning message. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/block/floppy.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/block/floppy.c~floppy-handle-device_create_file-failure-while-init drivers/block/floppy.c --- a/drivers/block/floppy.c~floppy-handle-device_create_file-failure-while-init +++ a/drivers/block/floppy.c @@ -4334,7 +4334,10 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void) if (err) goto out_flush_work; - device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,&dev_attr_cmos); + err = device_create_file(&floppy_device[drive].dev,&dev_attr_cmos); + if (err) + goto out_unreg_platform_dev; + /* to be cleaned up... */ disks[drive]->private_data = (void *)(long)drive; disks[drive]->queue = floppy_queue; @@ -4345,6 +4348,8 @@ static int __init floppy_init(void) return 0; +out_unreg_platform_dev: + platform_device_unregister(&floppy_device[drive]); out_flush_work: flush_scheduled_work(); if (usage_count) _