netdev - Re: [PATCH] fjes: no need to check return value of debugfs

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Message-Id: <20190622.164331.1876304524425958459.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sat, 22 Jun 2019 16:43:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tiny.windzz@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fjes: no need to check return value of debugfs_create
 functions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2019 09:31:06 +0200

> When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
> return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
> never do something different based on this.
> 
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied to net-next, thanks Greg.