RE: [char-misc 1/2 4.3 V2] mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output

From: Winkler, Tomas
Date: Mon Oct 05 2015 - 10:47:46 EST


>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 10:58:15AM +0300, Tomas Winkler wrote:
> > From: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V2: fixed author address
> >
> > drivers/misc/mei/debugfs.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/debugfs.c b/drivers/misc/mei/debugfs.c
> > index 4b469cf9e60f..c157f0ba575c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/misc/mei/debugfs.c
> > +++ b/drivers/misc/mei/debugfs.c
> > @@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ int mei_dbgfs_register(struct mei_device *dev, const
> char *name)
> > f = debugfs_create_file("active", S_IRUSR, dir,
> > dev, &mei_dbgfs_fops_active);
> > if (!f) {
> > - dev_err(dev->dev, "meclients: registration failed\n");
> > + dev_err(dev->dev, "active: registration failed\n");
> > goto err;
>
> You should never care if a debugfs call fails or not.

The system should not be dependent on the debug feature but, it is always good to know if there our system is failing

Also, this will
> "fail" if you don't have CONFIG_DEBUGFS enabled, which means you are
> using the api wrong :(

The whole file is not compiled if CONFIG_DEBUGFS is not set, please see the Makefile


Thanks
Tomas
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