netdev - Re: [PATCH mlx5-next] net/mlx5: Continue driver initialization despite debugfs failure

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Date:   Mon, 17 Dec 2018 22:39:10 +0000
From:   Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
To:     "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "leon@...nel.org" <leon@...nel.org>
CC:     "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>,
        "linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org" <linux-rdma@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH mlx5-next] net/mlx5: Continue driver initialization
 despite debugfs failure

On Thu, 2018-12-13 at 13:15 +0200, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 
> The failure to create debugfs entry is unpleasant event, but not
> enough
> to abort drier initialization. Align the mlx5_core code to debugfs
> design
> and continue execution whenever debugfs_create_dir() successes or
> not.
> 
> Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB
> adapters")
> Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@...lanox.com>
> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...lanox.com>
> 

Applied to mlx5-next.

Thanks.