linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: regulator: core: remove return value check of `regulator

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2023 12:55:50 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Yuchen Yang <u202114568@...t.edu.cn>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...eaurora.org>,
        hust-os-kernel-patches@...glegroups.com,
        Dongliang Mu <dzm91@...t.edu.cn>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: regulator: core: remove return value check of
 `regulator_init`

On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 08:27:31PM +0800, Yuchen Yang wrote:
> Smatch complains that:
> regulator_init() warn: 'debugfs_root' is an error pointer or valid
> 
> According to the documentation of the debugfs_create_dir() function,
> there is no need to check the return value of this function.
> Just delete the dead code.

This is very much a taste and use case question, you can't just delete
error checks without thought.

> Fixes: 247514344492 ("regulator: Remove ifdefs for debugfs code")

Don't just throw random Fixes tags on things :(

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