From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] armada: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 18:01:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190613160114.GC4632@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190613143600.ldcqfw4s3t2pxh2y@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:36:00PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:28:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
> > return value. The function can work or not, but the code logic should
> > never do something different based on this.
>
> Please don't merge this patch - I have a change that conflicts with this
> which switches us over to using drm_debugfs_create_files(), thereby
> eliminating this code.
Isn't it "first received, first applied?" That's how it is for my
subsystems...
Anyway, I have a much larger patch for all users of
drm_debugfs_create_files coming, but I'll wait for all of these tiny
ones to land before sending that out :)
thanks,
greg k-h
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-13 13:28 [PATCH] armada: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-13 14:36 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-06-13 16:01 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-06-13 16:15 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-06-13 17:43 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
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