linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: pci: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Message-Id: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1901231032510.5998@schleppi>
Date:   Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:35:44 +0100 (CET)
From:   Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: pci: no need to check return value of debugfs_create
 functions

On Tue, 22 Jan 2019, 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: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
> Cc: Sebastian Ott <sebott@...ux.ibm.com>
> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
> Cc: linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied for inclusion via s390/linux.git
Thanks!