[PATCH] armada: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 03:28:50PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 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.

Please don't merge this patch - I have a change that conflicts with this
which switches us over to using drm_debugfs_create_files(), thereby
eliminating this code.

> 
> Cc: Russell King <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> Cc: dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c | 14 ++++----------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c
> index 6758c3a83de2..aec1e7372371 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/armada/armada_debugfs.c
> @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static struct drm_info_list armada_debugfs_list[] = {
>  
>  int armada_drm_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
>  {
> -	struct dentry *de;
>  	int ret;
>  
>  	ret = drm_debugfs_create_files(armada_debugfs_list,
> @@ -118,15 +117,10 @@ int armada_drm_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
>  	if (ret)
>  		return ret;
>  
> -	de = debugfs_create_file("reg", S_IFREG | S_IRUSR,
> -				 minor->debugfs_root, minor->dev, &fops_reg_r);
> -	if (!de)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> -
> -	de = debugfs_create_file("reg_wr", S_IFREG | S_IWUSR,
> -				 minor->debugfs_root, minor->dev, &fops_reg_w);
> -	if (!de)
> -		return -ENOMEM;
> +	debugfs_create_file("reg", S_IFREG | S_IRUSR, minor->debugfs_root,
> +			    minor->dev, &fops_reg_r);
> +	debugfs_create_file("reg_wr", S_IFREG | S_IWUSR, minor->debugfs_root,
> +			    minor->dev, &fops_reg_w);
>  
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -- 
> 2.22.0
> 
> 

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