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From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [patch v2] virtio: console: cleanup an error message
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 12:41:31 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130729071131.GD15142@amit-x200.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130722204100.GB22020@elgon.mountain>

On (Mon) 22 Jul 2013 [23:41:00], Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The PTR_ERR(NULL) here is not useful.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> v2: completely different
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> index 1b456fe..4cf46d8 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
> @@ -2215,10 +2215,8 @@ static int __init init(void)
>  	}
>  
>  	pdrvdata.debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir("virtio-ports", NULL);
> -	if (!pdrvdata.debugfs_dir) {
> -		pr_warning("Error %ld creating debugfs dir for virtio-ports\n",
> -			   PTR_ERR(pdrvdata.debugfs_dir));
> -	}
> +	if (!pdrvdata.debugfs_dir)
> +		pr_warning("Error creating debugfs dir for virtio-ports\n");

When debugfs is enabled and creating the dir fails, we'll print this
warning message.

When debugfs is disabled, we'll get an error return, and not print any
message.

Seems OK to me.

Reviewed-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>

Rusty, please pick this up.

		Amit

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-07-29  7:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-19  5:50 [patch] virtio: console: fix error handling for debugfs_create_dir() Dan Carpenter
2013-07-19  6:13 ` Amit Shah
2013-07-19 10:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found] ` <201307191228.41794.arnd@arndb.de>
2013-07-20 21:50   ` Dan Carpenter
2013-07-21  9:36     ` Arnd Bergmann
     [not found]     ` <201307211136.25989.arnd@arndb.de>
2013-07-21 15:49       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-21 22:33       ` Dan Carpenter
2013-07-22 20:41   ` [patch v2] virtio: console: cleanup an error message Dan Carpenter
2013-07-23  4:35     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-29  7:11     ` Amit Shah [this message]
2013-07-29 13:12       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
     [not found]       ` <20130729131231.GC3779@kroah.com>
2013-07-29 13:35         ` Dan Carpenter
2013-07-29 13:44           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-07-30  6:23     ` Rusty Russell

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