Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 17:15:34 +0530
From: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>,
        Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com>,
        David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>, intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] drm/i915: load driver even if debugfs fails
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On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 12:54:33PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2015 at 02:56:42PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:36:12PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > debugfs files are not necessary for the usual operation of the driver
> > > and the device. No need to check for the return values from the debugfs
> > > file creation. Even if one debugfs file fails to create we try with the
> > > next debugfs file and ultimately return success always so that the
> > > driver continues to load.
> 
> Does this even happen?
realistically - I don't think it can happen. Even if it happens then
there will be more serious problem like memory crunch or filesystem
problem and in those cases there is no point in continuing to load the
driver.

regards
sudip
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