Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2015 13:48:50 +0600
From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
        Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>, Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>,
        Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>, Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/memblock: validate the creation of debugfs files
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On 08-15-15, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Yes, I agree that if memblock's debugfs_create_file() fails, we want to
> know about it because something needs fixing.  But that's true of
> all(?) debugfs_create_file callsites, so it's a bit silly to add
> warnings to them all.  Why not put the warning into
> debugfs_create_file() itself?

Good idea, but there are already some debugfs_create_file calls with checks and
warning, if these checks failed. I don't know how many, but I saw it.
Double warning is not good too.
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