[PATCH] rsi: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[PATCH] rsi: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
never do something different based on this.

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c
index 8c6ca8e689e4..d0c35f3e2012 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rsi/rsi_91x_debugfs.c
@@ -297,11 +297,6 @@ int rsi_init_dbgfs(struct rsi_hw *adapter)
 
 	dev_dbgfs->subdir = debugfs_create_dir(devdir, NULL);
 
-	if (!dev_dbgfs->subdir) {
-		kfree(dev_dbgfs);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
-
 	for (ii = 0; ii < adapter->num_debugfs_entries; ii++) {
 		files = &dev_debugfs_files[ii];
 		dev_dbgfs->rsi_files[ii] =
-- 
2.20.1

Re: [PATCH] rsi: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Kalle Valo]

Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
> return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
> never do something different based on this.
> 
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

b8f1fe518983 rsi: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10775759/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches