linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error handling

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Date:   Wed, 26 Aug 2020 09:52:37 -0700
From:   santosh.shilimkar@...cle.com
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error handling

On 8/26/20 4:37 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Callers are generally not supposed to check the return values from
> debugfs functions.  Debugfs functions never return NULL so this error
> handling will never trigger.  (Historically debugfs functions used to
> return a mix of NULL and error pointers but it was eventually deemed too
> complicated for something which wasn't intended to be used in normal
> situations).
> 
> Delete all the error handling.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
> ---
Looks good to me !!

Acked-by: Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@...nel.org>