Re: [PATCH] media: rockchip: rkisp1: remove some dead code

Helen Koike
2020-11-30T14:21:40Z

Hi Dan,

Thank you for your patch.

On 11/30/20 9:53 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The debugfs_create_dir() function never returns NULLs. It's not supposed
> to checked for errors in the normal case and there is no need to check
> in this function so let's just delete this dead code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/rkisp1-dev.c | 4 ----
> 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/rkisp1-dev.c b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/rkisp1-dev.c
> index 9af137e4967f..68da1eed753d 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/rkisp1-dev.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/rockchip/rkisp1/rkisp1-dev.c
> @@ -430,10 +430,6 @@ static void rkisp1_debug_init(struct rkisp1_device *rkisp1)
> struct rkisp1_debug *debug = &rkisp1->debug;
>
> debug->debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(RKISP1_DRIVER_NAME, NULL);
> - if (!debug->debugfs_dir) {
> - dev_dbg(rkisp1->dev, "failed to create debugfs directory\n");
> - return;
> - }

I was taking a look at the debugfs_create_dir() code, and I saw it can
return ERR_PTR(), so ideally we should check for errors with IS_ERR() / PTR_ERR().

Also from the docs:

* <snip> If an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR) will be
* returned.
*
* If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be
* returned.

> debugfs_create_ulong("data_loss", 0444, debug->debugfs_dir,
> &debug->data_loss);
> debugfs_create_ulong("outform_size_err", 0444, debug->debugfs_dir,
>

nit: I would change the name of the commit just to make it clear what it
does.
Example: Remove useless error check from debugfs_create_dir()

Thanks,