linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] android: binder: print error message on failure of creating proc file

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Message-ID: <2024071259-pelvis-penalty-dabd@gregkh>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 07:39:12 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@...gle.com>
Cc: Leesoo Ahn <lsahn@...eel.net>, Leesoo Ahn <lsahn@...akecorp.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Todd Kjos <tkjos@...roid.com>, Martijn Coenen <maco@...roid.com>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@...gle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] android: binder: print error message on failure of
 creating proc file

On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 04:01:20AM +0000, Carlos Llamas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 12:21:40PM +0900, Leesoo Ahn wrote:
> > It better prints out an error message to give more information if
> > calling debugfs_create_file() is failure and the return value has an
> > error code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Leesoo Ahn <lsahn@...eel.net>
> > ---
> 
> What are you trying to fix? My understanding is that users of the
> debugfs API can safely ignore any errors and move on. IMO it doesn't
> make sense to add this without a real reason.

Agreed, no one should care if debugfs works or not.

thanks,

greg k-h