linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: ipa: kill IPA

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Date:   Tue, 27 Jul 2021 17:03:55 +0300
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To:     Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, kuba@...nel.org, bjorn.andersson@...aro.org,
        evgreen@...omium.org, cpratapa@...eaurora.org,
        subashab@...eaurora.org, elder@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: ipa: kill IPA_VALIDATION

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 08:40:42AM -0500, Alex Elder wrote:
> On 7/27/21 7:56 AM, Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > > In any case I take your point.  I will now add to my task list
> > > a review of these spots.  I'd like to be sure an error message
> > > *is*  reported at an appropriate level up the chain of callers so
> > > I can always identify the culprit in the a WARN_ON() fires (even
> > > though it should never
> > >   happen).  And in each case I'll evaluate
> > > whether returning is better than not.
> > You can, but users don't :). So if it is valid but error flow, that
> > needs user awareness, simply print something to the dmesg with *_err()
> > prints.
> 
> For some reason you seem to care about users.

Yeah, this is my Achilles heel :)

Thanks