From: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
To: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com, sudeep.holla@arm.com,
lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
will.deacon@arm.com, morten.rasmussen@arm.com,
dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, broonie@kernel.org,
gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/9] drivers: remove useless comment from base/arch_topology.c
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2017 11:43:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170411104337.GP30804@e106622-lin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170410163325.GU17774@n2100.armlinux.org.uk>
On 10/04/17 17:33, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:02:14PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 10/04/17 14:51, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 02:18:22PM +0100, Juri Lelli wrote:
> > > > Printing out an error message when we failed to get the cpu device is
> > > > not helping anyone. Remove it.
> > >
> > > (1) the subject line talks about removing a "comment" but you're
> > > actually removing an error printk
> > > (2) I don't think it's "not helping anyone", although the description
> > > above doesn't say _why_ - it's reporting the lack of a missing CPU
> > > device that we expect to be present. If it's not present, then
> > > we're not going to end up with the cpu capacity attribute, and the
> > > error message answers the "why is that sysfs file missing" question.
> >
> > That's the same I was thinking when I put the error message there in the
> > first place. But, then Greg didn't seem to like it.
>
> I don't think it was a case of "not liking it" - Greg asked what use it
> was. Greg also pointed out the race with userspace.
>
Right. I asked him for more information, since I wasn't able to
understand where the problem is.
> I think dropping this patch is the quickest way to move forward.
>
OK, I'm also up for dropping it.
Best,
- Juri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-11 10:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-27 13:18 [PATCH v3 0/9] Fix issues and factorize arm/arm64 capacity information code Juri Lelli
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 1/9] Documentation: arm: fix wrong reference number in DT definition Juri Lelli
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 2/9] Documentation/ABI: add information about cpu_capacity Juri Lelli
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 3/9] arm: fix return value of parse_cpu_capacity Juri Lelli
2017-03-29 7:37 ` Vincent Guittot
2017-03-29 8:06 ` Juri Lelli
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 4/9] arm: remove wrong CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL ifdef Juri Lelli
2017-03-29 7:39 ` Vincent Guittot
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 5/9] arm, arm64: factorize common cpu capacity default code Juri Lelli
2017-04-08 16:25 ` Greg KH
2017-04-10 8:18 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-04-10 16:23 ` Juri Lelli
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 6/9] drivers: remove useless comment from base/arch_topology.c Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 13:51 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-04-10 14:02 ` Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 16:33 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-04-11 10:43 ` Juri Lelli [this message]
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 7/9] arm,arm64,drivers: reduce scope of cap_parsing_failed Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 8:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 8/9] arm,arm64,drivers: move externs in a new header file Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 8:31 ` Catalin Marinas
2017-03-27 13:18 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arm,arm64,drivers: add a prefix to drivers arch_topology interfaces Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 8:32 ` [PATCH v3 9/9] arm, arm64, drivers: " Catalin Marinas
2017-04-06 14:14 ` [PATCH v3 0/9] Fix issues and factorize arm/arm64 capacity information code Juri Lelli
2017-04-10 15:05 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2017-04-10 16:21 ` Juri Lelli
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