Re: [PATCH] PM/AVS: SmartReflex: fix fake probe success on debugfs fail

From: Nishanth Menon
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 10:43:10 EST


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Manish Badarkhe
<badarkhe.manish@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> IMHO, fail of creation of debugfs is not reason enough to fail the
>> probe - further, this code needs a major revamp to work with device tree.
>
> Yes, fail of debugfs creation should not be enough reason to fail probe. But as
> per current implementation of code, on debugfs failure smart reflex node is
> getting deleted and probe get failed. This patch not made any changes in
> logic of code but only makes proper use of "IS_ERR_OR_NULL".

Thanks for the clarification, it was not obvious from the commit
message. Further, I would rather prefer to see a proper cleanup that
handles error completely, since IS_ERR_OR_NULL is not really
recommended anymore.
Regards,
Nishanth Menon
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