netdev - [PATCH v2] nfcsim.c: Fix error checking for debugfs_create

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Date: Thu, 25 May 2023 22:27:46 +0500
From: Osama Muhammad <osmtendev@...il.com>
To: krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org,
	simon.horman@...igine.com
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Osama Muhammad <osmtendev@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] nfcsim.c: Fix error checking for debugfs_create_dir

This patch fixes the error checking in nfcsim.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>

---

changes since v1:
        -Dropped the error checking for debugfs_create_dir
---
 drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c b/drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c
index 44eeb17ae48d..a55381f80cd6 100644
--- a/drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c
+++ b/drivers/nfc/nfcsim.c
@@ -336,10 +336,6 @@ static struct dentry *nfcsim_debugfs_root;
 static void nfcsim_debugfs_init(void)
 {
 	nfcsim_debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("nfcsim", NULL);
-
-	if (!nfcsim_debugfs_root)
-		pr_err("Could not create debugfs entry\n");
-
 }
 
 static void nfcsim_debugfs_remove(void)
-- 
2.34.1