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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support
On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:37:32PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:56:13AM +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:33:54AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > > On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:07:59PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
> > > > why fail, debugfs should be an optional thingy, why would you want to fail here?
> > >
> > > Yes, we are handling the case when debugfs is not available
> > > and skipping debugfs gracefully.
> > >
> > > If debugfs is available then failure of debugfs_create_dir()
> > > should be reported.
> >
> > reported yes, bailing out on that err no..
>
> Reported, no. You should _never_ care about the return value of a
> debugfs call. Never check it, just move on ad keep on going. It
> doesn't matter.

Agreed that makes more sense. The driver was checking and bailing out, I
advised against that :)

--
~Vinod

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