Re: [PATCH] spi: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()

Mark Brown
2023-04-24T13:00:28Z

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On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 01:32:14PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > There's issues with partially created debugfs structures getting in the
> > way of people trying to debug things, just completely ignoring all
> > errors can create confusion as the diagnostic information people believe
> > is being shown to them ends up being partial or mistructured without any
> > indication that this has happened.

> How do you end up with partially created debugfs structures?

The ones I've seen have been name collisions caused by for example the
debugfs structure created being flatter than the device model structure,
though obviously something unanticipated could come up.

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