netdev - Re: [PATCH] proc: proc_create() should return true if CONFIG_PROC

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Date:	Wed, 25 Feb 2015 02:48:30 -0500
From:	Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinhart@...il.com>
To:	Zhang Zhaolong <zhangzl2013@....com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, dhowells@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: proc_create() should return true if CONFIG_PROC_FS
 is not configured

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 12:14 AM, Zhang Zhaolong <zhangzl2013@....com> wrote:
>
> proc_create() should return true if CONFIG_PROC_FS is not configured.
> Otherwise if-statement like this "if (!proc_create())" would go to the false path.

Does that even compile? proc_create() and proc_create_data() both return
"struct proc_dir_entry *". It doesn't make sense for those macros to "return"
anything but NULL - certainly not 1.

Besides, why shouldn't "if (!proc_create())" behave like proc_create()
failed when
CONFIG_PROC_FS is not enabled?  You wouldn't want the caller to start trying
to use that ((struct proc_dir_entry *)1) would you?
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