linux-kernel - [PATCH] ucd9000.c: Drop error checking for debugfs_create

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Date:   Thu, 25 May 2023 21:13:13 +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] ucd9000.c: Drop error checking for debugfs_create_dir

This patch fixes the error checking in ucd9000.c.
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>
---
 drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
index 3daaf2237832..73559afa8ba7 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pmbus/ucd9000.c
@@ -512,8 +512,6 @@ static int ucd9000_init_debugfs(struct i2c_client *client,
 		return -ENOENT;
 
 	data->debugfs = debugfs_create_dir(client->name, debugfs);
-	if (!data->debugfs)
-		return -ENOENT;
 
 	/*
 	 * Of the chips this driver supports, only the UCD9090, UCD90160,
-- 
2.34.1