linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] tools/power/cpupower: Read energy_perf

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Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 16:32:43 -0600
From:   Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:     X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.com>,
        Shuah Khan <shuah@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tools/power/cpupower: Read energy_perf_bias from
 sysfs

On 10/29/20 3:59 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:38:43PM -0600, Shuah Khan wrote:
>> All of the other ones should be changed as such. Why add more?
> 
> Because a patch should do one thing and one thing only. So a separate
> patch which converts them all in one go should come ontop. But if you
> insist for the ones I'm adding to have error handling, I can do that, of
> course.
> 

A separate patch is fine.


if (numwritten < 1) {
+        perror("write failed");

Please add filename to the error message.

Thanks. Since this depends on other changes, it can go through
tip once this error message change is made.

thanks,
-- Shuah