linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] init: Do not warn on non-zero initcall return

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Date:	Wed, 01 May 2013 13:23:39 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] init: Do not warn on non-zero initcall return

On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 10:11 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> > Commit f91eb62f71 "init: scream bloody murder if interrupts are enabled
> > too early" added three new warnings. The first two seemed reasonable,
> > but the third included a warning when an initcall returned non-zero.
> > Although, the third WARN() does include an imbalanced preempt disabled,
> > or irqs disable, it shouldn't warn if it only had an initcall that just
> > returns non-zero.
> 
> Ugh. Sorry, but this patch just looks stupid.
> 
> It seems that the right thing to do is to just remove the whole crappy
> 
>         if (ret && ret != -ENODEV && initcall_debug)
>                 sprintf(msgbuf, "error code %d ", ret);
> 
> thing entirely, since it's moronic to add that error code printout
> anyway, since if initcall_debug is set, we already do a much *better*
> job earlier with the whole
> 
>         pr_debug("initcall %pF returned %d after %lld usecs\n",
>                  fn, ret, duration);
> 
> printout in do_one_initcall_debug().  That will then fix the WARN()
> issue automatically.

Heh, I didn't even notice that it only prints if initcall_debug was
enabled.

OK, I'll just remove that part of the code.

-- Steve


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