linux-kernel - [PATCH v2] adm1266.c: Fix error checking for debugfs_create

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Message-Id: <20230525155806.14690-1-osmtendev@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 25 May 2023 20:58:06 +0500
From:   Osama Muhammad <osmtendev@...il.com>
To:     linux@...ck-us.net, jdelvare@...e.com
Cc:     linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Osama Muhammad <osmtendev@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] adm1266.c: Fix error checking for debugfs_create_dir

This patch fixes the error checking in adm1266.
The DebugFS kernel API is developed in
a way that the caller can safely ignore the errors that
occur during the creation of DebugFS nodes.

Signed-off-by: Osama Muhammad <osmtendev@...il.com>

---

changes since v1:
	-Dropped the error checking for debugfs_create_dir
---
 drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
index d88b6115b42e..184d75269d2b 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/adm1266.c
@@ -340,8 +340,6 @@ static void adm1266_init_debugfs(struct adm1266_data *data)
 		return;
 
 	data->debugfs_dir = debugfs_create_dir(data->client->name, root);
-	if (IS_ERR(data->debugfs_dir))
-		return;
 
 	debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(&data->client->dev, "sequencer_state", data->debugfs_dir,
 				    adm1266_state_read);
-- 
2.34.1