Re: [PATCH 8/9] perf util: Get rid of die() calls intrace-data-read.c

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Wed Mar 20 2013 - 09:27:37 EST


Em Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:25:52AM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:55:28 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 17:53 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> >> Convert them to pr_debug() and propagate error code.

> > Shouldn't they be pr_err(). I mean, if the old code would kill the
> > process, why just keep it as a debug output?

> Please see my other reply.

Ditto.

> Arnaldo, can you give me your direction/preference?

Yeah, I think that lower levels should emit a debug if it helps
developers and advanced users to remedy or at least understand the
situation.

The builtin-foo.c top level and the [TG]UI routines are the ones that
must emit messages to the user.

- Arnaldo
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