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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	linux-pm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] power: wakeup: Remove use of seq_printf return value
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:52:58 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1424641978.20944.20.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150222213835.GA7817@amd>

On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 22:38 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2015-02-21 18:53:33, Joe Perches wrote:
> > The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
> > will eventually be converted to void. 
> > 
> > See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
> >      seq_has_overflowed() and make public")
> 
> You've just removed overflow handling from
> print_wakeup_source_stats.
> 
>  Can you explain why that is good idea?

If overflow occurs, the seq_file subsystem allocates
a bigger buffer and calls the show function again.

See Al's comment in the 0/n patch and here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/17/642



  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-22 21:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-22  2:53 [PATCH 00/27] Convert seq_<foo> output calls to return void Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 01/27] staging: lustre: Convert "return seq_printf(...)" uses Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 02/27] staging: lustre: Convert seq_ hash functions to return void Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 03/27] staging: lustre: Convert uses of "int rc = seq_printf(...)" Joe Perches
2015-03-02  1:22   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-02  3:58     ` [PATCH 03/27 V2] " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 04/27] staging: lustre: Convert remaining uses of "= seq_printf(...)" Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 05/27] x86: mtrr: if: Remove use of seq_printf return value Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 06/27] power: wakeup: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22 21:38   ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-22 21:52     ` Joe Perches [this message]
2015-02-23 11:54       ` Pavel Machek
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 07/27] ipmi: " Joe Perches
2015-02-23 23:50   ` Andrew Morton
2015-02-24  1:23     ` Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 08/27] rtc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 09/27] ipc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 10/27] pxa27x_udc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22 10:22   ` Robert Jarzmik
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 11/27] microblaze: mb: " Joe Perches
2015-02-23 11:39   ` Michal Simek
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 12/27] nios2: cpuinfo: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 13/27] ARM: plat-pxa: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 14/27] openrisc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 15/27] cris: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 16/27] mfd: ab8500-debugfs: " Joe Perches
2015-03-06 10:54   ` Lee Jones
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 17/27] staging: i2o: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 18/27] staging: rtl8192x: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 19/27] s390: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22 12:53   ` Sebastian Ott
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 20/27] i8k: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  4:55   ` Guenter Roeck
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 21/27] watchdog: bcm281xx: " Joe Perches
2015-02-23 19:29   ` [21/27] " Guenter Roeck
2015-03-27  7:57   ` [PATCH 21/27] " Wim Van Sebroeck
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 22/27] proc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 23/27] cgroup: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22 13:41   ` Tejun Heo
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 24/27] tracing: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  3:54   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-22  4:41     ` Al Viro
2015-02-22 10:39       ` Joe Perches
2015-02-23 17:20         ` Steven Rostedt
2015-02-23 17:36           ` Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 25/27] lru_cache: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 26/27] parisc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-22  2:53 ` [PATCH 27/27] regulator: dbx500: Remove use of seq_puts/seq_printf " Joe Perches
2015-02-23 13:55   ` Mark Brown
2015-02-23 14:52     ` Joe Perches
2015-02-24  8:18       ` Mark Brown
2015-02-22  4:00 ` [PATCH V2 - 15/27] cris: Remove use of seq_printf " Joe Perches
2015-02-23  7:18   ` Jesper Nilsson
2015-02-22  4:02 ` [PATCH V2 - 08/27] rtc: " Joe Perches
2015-02-26 12:10 ` [PATCH 11/27 v2] microblaze: mb: " Joe Perches

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