Re: [PATCH 06/27] power: wakeup: Remove use of seq_printf return value

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 23 2015 - 06:57:15 EST


On Sun 2015-02-22 13:52:58, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2015-02-22 at 22:38 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Sat 2015-02-21 18:53:33, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > The seq_printf return value, because it's frequently misused,
> > > will eventually be converted to void.
> > >
> > > See: commit 1f33c41c03da ("seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to
> > > seq_has_overflowed() and make public")
> >
> > You've just removed overflow handling from
> > print_wakeup_source_stats.
> >
> > Can you explain why that is good idea?
>
> If overflow occurs, the seq_file subsystem allocates
> a bigger buffer and calls the show function again.
>
> See Al's comment in the 0/n patch and here:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/2/17/642

You may want to explain while this is good idea in the changelog.

>From your explanation it looks like error is somehow handled
on higher-level retry, but...

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