[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v3 16/17] ixgbe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Sat Aug 10 10:17:31 UTC 2019


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: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
Cc: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
---
 .../net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c  | 22 +++++--------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c
index 50dfb02fa34c..171cdc552961 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_debugfs.c
@@ -190,22 +190,12 @@ static const struct file_operations ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_fops = {
 void ixgbe_dbg_adapter_init(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
 {
 	const char *name = pci_name(adapter->pdev);
-	struct dentry *pfile;
+
 	adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter = debugfs_create_dir(name, ixgbe_dbg_root);
-	if (adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter) {
-		pfile = debugfs_create_file("reg_ops", 0600,
-					    adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter, adapter,
-					    &ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_fops);
-		if (!pfile)
-			e_dev_err("debugfs reg_ops for %s failed\n", name);
-		pfile = debugfs_create_file("netdev_ops", 0600,
-					    adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter, adapter,
-					    &ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_fops);
-		if (!pfile)
-			e_dev_err("debugfs netdev_ops for %s failed\n", name);
-	} else {
-		e_dev_err("debugfs entry for %s failed\n", name);
-	}
+	debugfs_create_file("reg_ops", 0600, adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter,
+			    adapter, &ixgbe_dbg_reg_ops_fops);
+	debugfs_create_file("netdev_ops", 0600, adapter->ixgbe_dbg_adapter,
+			    adapter, &ixgbe_dbg_netdev_ops_fops);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -224,8 +214,6 @@ void ixgbe_dbg_adapter_exit(struct ixgbe_adapter *adapter)
 void ixgbe_dbg_init(void)
 {
 	ixgbe_dbg_root = debugfs_create_dir(ixgbe_driver_name, NULL);
-	if (ixgbe_dbg_root == NULL)
-		pr_err("init of debugfs failed\n");
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.22.0



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