netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: Fix use of proc

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Date:   Sat, 12 Dec 2020 10:39:32 +0200
From:   Yonatan Linik <yonatanlinik@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
        john.ogness@...utronix.de, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Mao Wenan <maowenan@...wei.com>,
        Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        orcohen@...oaltonetworks.com, Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] net: Fix use of proc_fs

On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 11:00 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Another option would be to just ignore the return code here
> and continue without a procfs file, regardless of whether procfs
> is enabled or not.
>
>        Arnd

Yes I thought about that, but I didn't want to make changes to the way
it behaved when procfs was enabled.
If you decide that's a better solution I will happily change it.

-- 
Yonatan Linik