[alsa-devel] [RFC PATCH 04/40] soundwire: intel: add debugfs register dump

Pierre-Louis Bossart pierre-louis.bossart at linux.intel.com
Fri Jul 26 17:34:38 CEST 2019


>> +static const struct file_operations intel_reg_fops = {
>> +	.open = simple_open,
>> +	.read = intel_reg_read,
>> +	.llseek = default_llseek,
>> +};
> 
> DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE()?

yes

> 
>> +
>> +static void intel_debugfs_init(struct sdw_intel *sdw)
>> +{
>> +	struct dentry *root = sdw->cdns.bus.debugfs;
>> +
>> +	if (!root)
>> +		return;
>> +
>> +	sdw->fs = debugfs_create_dir("intel-sdw", root);
>> +	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(sdw->fs)) {
>> +		dev_err(sdw->cdns.dev, "debugfs root creation failed\n");
> 
> No, come on, don't do that.  I've been sweeping the kernel tree to
> remove this anti-pattern.
> 
> The debugfs core will print an error if you got something wrong, just
> call the function and move on, you NEVER need to check the return value
> of a debugfs call.

Yes, sorry to make your blood pressure go up... I missed this one in the 
cleanups yesterday. will fix.


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