linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support

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Date:   Fri, 18 Aug 2017 10:55:49 +0530
From:   Anup Patel <anup.patel@...adcom.com>
To:     Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Scott Branden <sbranden@...adcom.com>,
        Ray Jui <rjui@...adcom.com>,
        Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux ARM Kernel <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Device Tree <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
        BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/16] dmaengine: bcm-sba-raid: Add debugfs support

On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 10:33:54AM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 1:31 PM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com> wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 04:07:59PM +0530, Anup Patel wrote:
>> > why fail, debugfs should be an optional thingy, why would you want to fail here?
>>
>> Yes, we are handling the case when debugfs is not available
>> and skipping debugfs gracefully.
>>
>> If debugfs is available then failure of debugfs_create_dir()
>> should be reported.
>
> reported yes, bailing out on that err no..

OK, I will put dev_err() instead of bailing out.

Regards,
Anup