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

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Message-Id: <20191112141920.21477-1-miquel.raynal@bootlin.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:19:20 +0100
From:   Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>,
        Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

On Thu, 2019-11-07 at 08:51:11 UTC, 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: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Cc: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
> Cc: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>
> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>
> Cc: Vignesh Raghavendra <vigneshr@...com>
> Cc: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
> Cc: linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mtd/linux.git mtd/next, thanks.

Miquel