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