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

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:53:34 +0200,
Mark Brown wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 10:39:11PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> 
> > Well, I just wonder whether you have ever seen a case where the
> > debugfs creation failed.  Or more practically, would it fail silently
> > at all?
> 
> > If there can be a silent failure, then it's bad to just ignore, yes.
> > We may need either to make it more obvious or return an error.
> 
> 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.


thanks,

Takashi