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

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Message-Id: <20190811.213135.247211376954677812.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 11 Aug 2019 21:31:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rfontana@...hat.com, swinslow@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] caif: no need to check return value of debugfs_create
 functions

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 12:42:43 +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: Richard Fontana <rfontana@...hat.com>
> Cc: Steve Winslow <swinslow@...il.com>
> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Applied.