-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 12:48 AM 29/04/2021 02:50, Dmitry Kozlyuk: > > 2021-04-02 18:39 (UTC-0700), Narcisa Ana Maria Vasile: > > > +int > > > +rte_thread_attr_init(rte_thread_attr_t *attr) { > > > + if (attr == NULL) { > > > + RTE_LOG(DEBUG, EAL, > > > + "Unable to init thread attributes, invalid parameter\n"); > > > + return EINVAL; > > > + } > > > > This message doesn't add value for debugging: caller already knows > > that attribute initialization failed (that's what function attempts to > > do) and that the parameter is invalid (EINVAL). > > I'd remove it (same applies below). > > If you find it useful to keep, an extra indent missing (also more below). > Recently in ethdev we added more messages like this for NULL parameters. > I agree it is not a lot useful but I understand that lazy developers may like > it ;) Shouldn't this specific case be an assert? Unless we are trying to maintain compatibility with existing badly designed semantics. The whole calling pattern is non-sensible, the caller passes an NULL parameter to a function where the input contract is non-NULL and then proceeds to handle the error by doing what that could possibly be useful exactly?