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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Brandon Leong <bleong@codeaurora.org>,
	lrg@slimlogic.co.uk, davidb@codeaurora.org,
	linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] regulator: debugfs: Adding debugfs functions into regulator framework
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 11:57:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101207115701.GC4698@rakim.wolfsonmicro.main> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291690320.4150.1.camel@m0nster>

On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:52:00PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 22:29 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > +static int reg_debug_enable_set(void *data, u64 val)
> > > +{
> > > +	int err_info;
> > > +	if (IS_ERR(data) || data == NULL) {
> > > +		pr_err("Function Input Error %ld\n", PTR_ERR(data));

> > Please Try To Make Your Log Messages A Bit More Descriptive And
> > Typographically Correct - I'd not expect a user to have a hope of
> > figuring out what's gone wrong here.  That said, I suspect you're
> > looking for BUG_ON() here...

> Could we do WARN_ON() here? Unless this is a really serious problem.

It means we've managed to let the user open a file without setting up
the private data for the file correctly which is a pretty bad bug which
we'd never expect to see at runtime unless there was a clear kernel bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-07 11:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06 20:52 [PATCH] regulator: debugfs: Adding debugfs functions into regulator framework Brandon Leong
2010-12-06 22:29 ` Mark Brown
2010-12-07  2:52   ` Daniel Walker
2010-12-07 11:57     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2010-12-07 22:04       ` Brandon Leong
2010-12-07 22:37         ` Mark Brown

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