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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@intel.com>,
	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Jie Yang <yang.jie@linux.intel.com>,
	alsa-devel@alsa-project.org,
	Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] sound: soc: skylake: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:23:29 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190627002329.GA3540@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190624133336.GN5316@sirena.org.uk>

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

  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-27  0:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-14  9:47 [PATCH 1/5] sound: SoC: sof: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14  9:47 ` [PATCH 2/5] sound: soc: skylake: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-22 19:57   ` Cezary Rojewski
2019-06-22 20:39     ` Takashi Iwai
     [not found]       ` <20190624105334.GJ5316@sirena.org.uk>
2019-06-24 13:15         ` Takashi Iwai
2019-06-24 13:33           ` Mark Brown
2019-06-27  0:23             ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-06-23  4:57     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-23 15:18       ` Cezary Rojewski
2019-06-23 15:55         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14  9:47 ` [PATCH 3/5] sound: soc: codecs: wm_adsp: " Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 10:24   ` Richard Fitzgerald
2019-06-14 15:43   ` Applied "ASoC: wm_adsp: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions" to the asoc tree Mark Brown
2019-06-14  9:47 ` [PATCH 4/5] sound: soc: fsl: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 15:43   ` Applied "ASoC: fsl: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions" to the asoc tree Mark Brown
2019-06-14  9:47 ` [PATCH 5/5] sound: soc: core: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 15:34   ` Mark Brown
2019-06-14 16:13     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 17:41       ` Mark Brown
2019-06-14 14:59 ` [PATCH 1/5] sound: SoC: sof: " Mark Brown
2019-06-14 15:28   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 15:14 ` Mark Brown
2019-06-14 15:27   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-06-14 16:37     ` Mark Brown

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