[PATCH v2] cxl: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Thu Jun 13 04:22:56 AEST 2019


On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 5:54 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh at 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.
>
> Because there's no need to check, also make the return value of the
> local debugfs_create_io_x64() call void, as no one ever did anything
> with the return value (as they did not need to.)
>
> And make the cxl_debugfs_* calls return void as no one was even checking
> their return value at all.
>
> Cc: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Andrew Donnellan <ajd at linux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>


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