linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dump: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Message-ID: <20190131135744.GB21965@fuggles.cambridge.arm.com>
Date:   Thu, 31 Jan 2019 13:57:44 +0000
From:   Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...nel.org>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Peng Donglin <dolinux.peng@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dump: no need to check return value of
 debugfs_create functions

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:33:48PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:21:02PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> > 
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:41:11PM +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: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> > > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>
> > > Cc: Peng Donglin <dolinux.peng@...il.com>
> > > Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> > > ---
> > >  arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h | 9 +++------
> > >  arch/arm64/mm/dump.c            | 4 ++--
> > >  arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c  | 7 ++-----
> > >  3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Are you taking this via your tree, or would you like us to queue it in
> > arm64?
> 
> What ever is easiest for you is fine with me, I can handle it either
> way, just let me know.

It's easy enough for us to merge the arm64 bits, so we'll pick that up for
5.1.

Cheers,

Will