Re: [PATCH 11/17] qca: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>]

Am Dienstag, 6. August 2019, 18:11:22 CEST schrieb 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: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
> Cc: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>
> Cc: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@gmail.com>
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c | 13 +++----------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c
> b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c index
> bcb890b18a94..702aa217a27a 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_debug.c
> @@ -131,17 +131,10 @@ DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE(qcaspi_info);
>  void
>  qcaspi_init_device_debugfs(struct qcaspi *qca)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *device_root;
> +	qca->device_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&qca->net_dev->dev),
> +					      NULL);
> 
> -	device_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&qca->net_dev->dev), NULL);
> -	qca->device_root = device_root;
> -
> -	if (IS_ERR(device_root) || !device_root) {
> -		pr_warn("failed to create debugfs directory for %s\n",
> -			dev_name(&qca->net_dev->dev));
> -		return;
> -	}
> -	debugfs_create_file("info", S_IFREG | 0444, device_root, qca,
> +	debugfs_create_file("info", S_IFREG | 0444, qca->device_root, qca,
>  			    &qcaspi_info_fops);
>  }

Acked-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com>