Re: [alsa-devel] ALSA: korg1212: Checking exception handling in snd_korg1212_create()

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:00:21 +0100,
Markus Elfring wrote:
> 
> > The code path is after snd_device_new() which has its own destructor callback.
> 
> Thanks for your reminder.
> 
> Can the properties of this programming interface be documented also together
> with the function declaration for the safer handling of ALSA components?
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/sound/kernel-api/writing-an-alsa-driver.rst?id=d6d5df1db6e9d7f8f76d2911707f7d5877251b02#n567

I can think of only adding some comment at each point mentioning that
the resource will be managed by the device destructor.

> Can any more API information help to improve automatic source code analysis
> around similar functions?

If anything we can add, let me know.


Takashi