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

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Date:	Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:39:37 +0100
From:	Chris Wilson <chris@...is-wilson.co.uk>
To:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Cc:	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 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.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
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