From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>,
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB: mlx5: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:30:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191105143008.GC6763@unreal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191104074141.GA1292396@kroah.com>
On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:41:41AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c | 62 +++++++---------------------
> drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h | 9 +---
> 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>
> Note, I kind of need to take this through my tree now as I broke the
> build due to me changing the use of debugfs_create_atomic_t() in my
> tree and not noticing this being used here. Sorry about that, any
> objections?
>
> And 0-day seems really broken to have missed this for the past months,
> ugh, I need to stop relying on it...
>
Thanks,
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-05 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-04 7:41 [PATCH] IB: mlx5: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-04 20:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2019-11-04 21:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-05 0:48 ` Mark Bloch
2019-11-05 7:24 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-11-05 14:30 ` Leon Romanovsky [this message]
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