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

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Message-ID: <672e8d914d7e1ab23bf8a9988b571d6097707ede.camel@intel.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Jan 2019 21:30:20 +0200
From:   Luciano Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: fw: no need to check return value of
 debugfs_create functions

On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 16:21 +0100, 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: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>
> Cc: Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>
> Cc: Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>
> Cc: Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
> Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> ---


Thanks, Greg! I applied this in our internal tree and it will reach
upstream following our normal upstreaming process.

--
Cheers,
Luca.