From: "Morten Brørup" <mb@smartsharesystems.com>
To: "David Marchand" <david.marchand@redhat.com>
Cc: <ktraynor@redhat.com>, <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] eal/unix: lower log level for reading files
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:00:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <98CBD80474FA8B44BF855DF32C47DC35E9EFA4@smartserver.smartshare.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231027080031.251425-1-david.marchand@redhat.com>
> From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, 27 October 2023 10.01
>
> The eal_parse_sysfs_value helper both returns an error code and logs an
> error level message when something goes wrong.
> On the other hand, internal users of this helper either ignore this
> error code (like when trying to find out some numa information from the
> Linux sysfs, or discovering some optional feature), or add their own
> error
> logging when reading the file actually matters.
>
> Lower this helper log messages to debug level as it provides no useful
> information to final DPDK users.
Such assumptions seem risky.
Please add __attribute__ ((warn_unused_result)) to this function's header, to support the assumption.
Alternatively, add a "bool may_not_exist" parameter to the function to choose the relevant log level.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-27 9:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-27 8:00 David Marchand
2023-10-27 9:00 ` Morten Brørup [this message]
2023-10-27 9:13 ` David Marchand
2023-10-30 10:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
2023-10-30 10:45 ` Morten Brørup
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