linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: correct error message on failure of debugfs_create

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Message-ID: <CA+1xoqdd3DN6ApCnQh=8fQBvFh40O2BJPf4mAA_L17cRH8kShQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:24:52 -0500
From:	Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Amit Shah <amit.shah@...hat.com>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@...cle.com>,
	virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_console: correct error message on failure of debugfs_create_dir

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:55:46AM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Friday 21 December 2012, Amit Shah wrote:
>> > On (Thu) 20 Dec 2012 [14:11:21], Sasha Levin wrote:
>> > > debugfs_create_dir() returns NULL if it fails, there's little point in
>> > > calling PTR_ERR on it.
>> >
>> > debugfs_create_dir() does return an error value if debugfs is not
>> > enabled.
>> >
>> > This check for !pdrvdata.debugfs_dir should infact use
>> > IS_ERR_OR_NULL().  Care to submit a patch for that?
>>
>> How about we fix the stub instead to return NULL when debugfs is disabled?
>
> No, please read debugfs.h for why I decided to not do this (i.e. we try
> to learn from our mistakes...)

Why won't we fix it the other way around and return an actual error
code instead of a NULL on failure?


Thanks,
Sasha
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