Re: [PATCH] regulator: debugfs: Adding debugfs functions into regulator framework

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On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 06:52:00PM -0800, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 22:29 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:

> > > +static int reg_debug_enable_set(void *data, u64 val)
> > > +{
> > > +	int err_info;
> > > +	if (IS_ERR(data) || data == NULL) {
> > > +		pr_err("Function Input Error %ld\n", PTR_ERR(data));

> > Please Try To Make Your Log Messages A Bit More Descriptive And
> > Typographically Correct - I'd not expect a user to have a hope of
> > figuring out what's gone wrong here.  That said, I suspect you're
> > looking for BUG_ON() here...

> Could we do WARN_ON() here? Unless this is a really serious problem.

It means we've managed to let the user open a file without setting up
the private data for the file correctly which is a pretty bad bug which
we'd never expect to see at runtime unless there was a clear kernel bug.
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