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

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Message-Id: <20190811.213013.1995644313060273325.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:30:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     wei.liu@...nel.org, paul.durrant@...rix.com,
        xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xen-netback: no need to check return value of
 debugfs_create functions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:31:08 +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: Wei Liu <wei.liu@...nel.org>
> Cc: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
> Cc: xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied to net-next.