On Sat, May 05, 2018 at 07:51:18AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> writes: > > > Use remove_proc_subtree to remove the whole subtree on cleanup, and > > unwind the registration loop into individual calls. Switch to use > > proc_create_seq where applicable. > > Can you please explain why you are removing the error handling when > you are unwinding the registration loop? Because there is no point in handling these errors. The code work perfectly fine without procfs, or without given proc files and the removal works just fine if they don't exist either. This is a very common patter in various parts of the kernel already. I'll document it better in the changelog. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
