linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mt7601u: delete dead code checking debugfs returns

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Date:   Fri,  5 May 2023 12:03:16 +0000 (UTC)
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>
To:     Wang Jikai <wangjikai@...t.edu.cn>
Cc:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        hust-os-kernel-patches@...glegroups.com,
        Wang Jikai <wangjikai@...t.edu.cn>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] wifi: mt7601u: delete dead code checking debugfs
 returns

Wang Jikai <wangjikai@...t.edu.cn> wrote:

> Smatch reports that:
> drivers/net/wireless/mediatek/mt7601u/debugfs.c:130
> mt7601u_init_debugfs() warn: 'dir' is an error pointer or valid".
> 
> Debugfs code is not supposed to need error checking so instead of
> changing this to if (IS_ERR()) the correct thing is to just delete
> the dead code.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Jikai <wangjikai@...t.edu.cn>
> Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>

Patch applied to wireless-next.git, thanks.

f3dc7bb037d8 wifi: mt7601u: delete dead code checking debugfs returns

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/patch/20230421092200.24456-1-wangjikai@hust.edu.cn/

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches