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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@canonical.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: runtime: document common mistake with pm_runtime_get_sync()
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 00:53:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210425225345.GN10996@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZ5v0iUQBfrTtVmfrrDixZnnr1_THgaM1+mFu4TRT+OOYb2mw@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi!

> However, if the code wants to check the return value, that is:
> 
> error = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(dev);
> if (error)
>         return error;

Well, we mostly expect people to check error values, and the "continue
on error" case seems to be pretty unusual and mostly result of
oversight.

Quite large percentage of -stable patches is fixes after people got
confused with unusual interface...

Best regards,
								Pavel

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http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-04-25 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-22 16:46 [PATCH] PM: runtime: document common mistake with pm_runtime_get_sync() Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-04-23 14:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-04-23 15:03   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2021-04-26 11:45     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2021-04-25 22:53   ` Pavel Machek [this message]

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