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

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3eQWeqVu_2VJ9=4Z3Fzp+B_zW1Zgcw_YFzC3qD05ygGw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:39:40 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Frank Haverkamp <haver@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] genwq: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 8:41 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: Frank Haverkamp <haver@...ux.ibm.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>