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

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1-gZwNCfGYTAnzr8YcRtWJ6WDLGcbB+eSbqin9ZzjAhg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:26:40 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>,
        Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mic: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:43 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> 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: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@...el.com>
> Cc: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@...el.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>