linux-kernel - Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: add error path

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 17:26:24 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>,
	Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@...ux.intel.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	intel-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915: add error path

On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:39:37PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 04:58:47PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > If any of the debug file creation fails we were just returning the
> > error code to the drm layer. But the debug files that we created in the
> > process were not removed. And debugfs files are not automatically
> > cleaned up.
> 
> Just handle the failure to add gracefully by only removing the ones we
> add during debugfs cleanup. One thing we do not actually want to do here
> is return an error - not setting up every file in debugfs shouldn't stop
> the driver from loading.
Ok, I will send the v2 day after tomorrow. Today and tomorrow I will
horribly busy in my dayjob.

regards
sudip
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