From: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Anup Patel <anup.patel@broadcom.com>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>,
Ray Jui <rjui@broadcom.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux ARM Kernel <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
Device Tree <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
dmaengine@vger.kernel.org,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2017 09:39:54 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170908040954.GB3053@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170907193732.GB11006@kroah.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-08 4:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-01 10:37 [PATCH v2 00/16] Broadcom SBA-RAID driver improvements Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 01/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Minor improvments in comments Anup Patel
2017-08-17 3:44 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 4:54 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 02/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Reduce locking context in sba_alloc_request() Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 03/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Common flags for sba_request state and fence Anup Patel
2017-08-17 3:45 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 4:56 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-18 5:25 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 6:05 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 04/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant next_count from sba_request Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 05/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant resp_dma " Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 06/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove reqs_free_count from sba_device Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 07/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Allow arbitrary number free sba_request Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 08/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Increase number of " Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 09/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Improve sba_issue_pending() run duration Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:36 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 6:12 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 10/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Alloc resources before registering DMA device Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:38 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:01 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 11/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Peek mbox when we have no free requests Anup Patel
2017-08-17 6:40 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 11:36 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 12/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Pre-ack async tx descriptor Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 13/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Re-factor sba_process_deferred_requests() Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 14/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Remove redundant SBA_REQUEST_STATE_RECEIVED Anup Patel
2017-08-01 10:37 ` [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support Anup Patel
2017-08-17 8:01 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:03 ` Anup Patel
2017-08-18 5:26 ` Vinod Koul
2017-08-18 5:25 ` Anup Patel
2017-09-07 19:37 ` Greg KH
2017-09-08 4:09 ` Vinod Koul [this message]
2017-08-01 10:38 ` [PATCH v2 16/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Explicitly ACK mailbox message after sending Anup Patel
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