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


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