Re: [PATCH 2/5] sound: soc: skylake: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

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On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 02:33:36PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:15:26PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> > > Currently debugfs doesn't report any errors other than via the return
> > > codes (at least in the common creation stuff) so it's up to the callers
> > > to do that.
> 
> > So this should be changed to follow a la sysfs creation error, IMO.
> > At least, the name conflicts etc should be reported more obviously.
> 
> Indeed, that'd mitigate the problems with just making everything
> silently fail a lot - so long as we say there's a problem people are a
> lot less likely to be mislead if anything goes wrong.

Ok, let me work on doing this in the debugfs core and will cc: you all
on the resulting patches to see if it will satisfy your objections here.

sorry for the delay, am on the road all this week with limited
internet...

greg k-h
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