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Date:   Tue, 22 Jan 2019 15:57:38 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mips@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/5] mips: cavium: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

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: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>
Cc: James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-mips@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c | 31 ++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c
index 2d68a39f1443..0b6ec4c17896 100644
--- a/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c
+++ b/arch/mips/cavium-octeon/oct_ilm.c
@@ -63,31 +63,12 @@ static int reset_statistics(void *data, u64 value)
 
 DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE(reset_statistics_ops, NULL, reset_statistics, "%llu\n");
 
-static int init_debufs(void)
+static void init_debugfs(void)
 {
-	struct dentry *show_dentry;
 	dir = debugfs_create_dir("oct_ilm", 0);
-	if (!dir) {
-		pr_err("oct_ilm: failed to create debugfs entry oct_ilm\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	show_dentry = debugfs_create_file("statistics", 0222, dir, NULL,
-					  &oct_ilm_ops);
-	if (!show_dentry) {
-		pr_err("oct_ilm: failed to create debugfs entry oct_ilm/statistics\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
-
-	show_dentry = debugfs_create_file("reset", 0222, dir, NULL,
-					  &reset_statistics_ops);
-	if (!show_dentry) {
-		pr_err("oct_ilm: failed to create debugfs entry oct_ilm/reset\n");
-		return -1;
-	}
-
+	debugfs_create_file("statistics", 0222, dir, NULL, &oct_ilm_ops);
+	debugfs_create_file("reset", 0222, dir, NULL, &reset_statistics_ops);
 	return 0;
-
 }
 
 static void init_latency_info(struct latency_info *li, int startup)
@@ -169,11 +150,7 @@ static __init int oct_ilm_module_init(void)
 	int rc;
 	int irq = OCTEON_IRQ_TIMER0 + TIMER_NUM;
 
-	rc = init_debufs();
-	if (rc) {
-		WARN(1, "Could not create debugfs entries");
-		return rc;
-	}
+	init_debugfs();
 
 	rc = request_irq(irq, cvm_oct_ciu_timer_interrupt, IRQF_NO_THREAD,
 			 "oct_ilm", 0);
-- 
2.20.1

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