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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <artem.bityutskiy@linux.intel.com>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org,
	Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] mtd: use correct error codes in debugfs_create()
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 05:56:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722055607.GF5636@mwanda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130719054938.GC9729@elgon.mountain>

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 08:49:38AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The test here is reversed.  It should be that if "dent" is a valid error
> code then we use it, otherwise if it is NULL then use -ENODEV.
> 

People have explained the debugfs_create API to me better and now
I'm not sure what to do here...  debugfs_create_dir() returns a
NULL on error and if debugfs is not enabled then it returns -ENODEV.
We test for if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_FS)) earlier in the
function so it can only return NULL.

Probably I should just change the test to only test for NULL?

Otherwise I think my patch is correct.  The original code will
return success on error (NULL return) and that was not intended.

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-22  5:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19  5:49 [patch] mtd: use correct error codes in debugfs_create() Dan Carpenter
2013-07-22  5:56 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2013-07-22  7:51   ` walter harms
2013-07-22 12:47     ` Dan Carpenter
2013-07-22 20:43 ` [patch v2] mtd: tiny debugfs related fixes Dan Carpenter

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