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From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>, Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: validate the creation of debugfs files
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:26:36 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150815072636.GA2539@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150814141944.4172fee6c9d7ae02a6258c80@linux-foundation.org>

Hello Andrew,

On 08-14-15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 01:03:31 +0600 Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
> 
> There's no changelog.

Yes, will add it if there will be sense in the patch.

> 
> Why?  Ignoring the debugfs API return values is standard practice.
> 

Yes, but I saw many places where this practice is applicable (for example
in the kernel/kprobes and etc.), besides this, the memblock API is used
mostly at early stage, so we will have some output if something going wrong.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-15  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-14 19:03 [PATCH] mm/memblock: validate the creation of debugfs files Alexander Kuleshov
2015-08-14 21:19 ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-15  7:26   ` Alexander Kuleshov [this message]
2015-08-15  7:38     ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-15  7:48       ` Alexander Kuleshov
2015-08-15  7:52         ` Andrew Morton
2015-08-15 16:07       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-08-17 22:05         ` Andrew Morton

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