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* [PATCH] edac: make edac_debugfs_create_x*() return void
@ 2019-06-11 17:54 Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2019-06-15  9:00 ` Borislav Petkov
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman @ 2019-06-11 17:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Borislav Petkov, Mauro Carvalho Chehab, James Morse; +Cc: linux-edac

The return values of edac_debugfs_create_x16() and
edac_debugfs_create_x8() are never checked (as they don't need to be),
so no need to have them return anything, just make the functions return
void instead.

This is done with the goal of being able to change the debugfs_create_x*
functions to also not return a value.

Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/edac/debugfs.c     | 12 ++++++------
 drivers/edac/edac_module.h | 18 ++++++++----------
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/edac/debugfs.c b/drivers/edac/debugfs.c
index 6b8e484db851..1f943599a8ac 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/debugfs.c
+++ b/drivers/edac/debugfs.c
@@ -118,23 +118,23 @@ edac_debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_debugfs_create_file);
 
 /* Wrapper for debugfs_create_x8() */
-struct dentry *edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-				       struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)
+void edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+			    struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)
 {
 	if (!parent)
 		parent = edac_debugfs;
 
-	return debugfs_create_x8(name, mode, parent, value);
+	debugfs_create_x8(name, mode, parent, value);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_debugfs_create_x8);
 
 /* Wrapper for debugfs_create_x16() */
-struct dentry *edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-				       struct dentry *parent, u16 *value)
+void edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+			     struct dentry *parent, u16 *value)
 {
 	if (!parent)
 		parent = edac_debugfs;
 
-	return debugfs_create_x16(name, mode, parent, value);
+	debugfs_create_x16(name, mode, parent, value);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(edac_debugfs_create_x16);
diff --git a/drivers/edac/edac_module.h b/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
index dd7d0b509aa3..bc4b806dc9cc 100644
--- a/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
+++ b/drivers/edac/edac_module.h
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ edac_debugfs_create_dir_at(const char *dirname, struct dentry *parent);
 struct dentry *
 edac_debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
 			 void *data, const struct file_operations *fops);
-struct dentry *
-edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
-struct dentry *
-edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
+void edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+			    struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
+void edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+			     struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
 #else
 static inline void edac_debugfs_init(void)					{ }
 static inline void edac_debugfs_exit(void)					{ }
@@ -92,12 +92,10 @@ edac_debugfs_create_dir_at(const char *dirname, struct dentry *parent)		{ return
 static inline struct dentry *
 edac_debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
 			 void *data, const struct file_operations *fops)	{ return NULL; }
-static inline struct dentry *
-edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-		       struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)			{ return NULL; }
-static inline struct dentry *
-edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-		       struct dentry *parent, u16 *value)			{ return NULL; }
+static inline void edac_debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+					  struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)	{ }
+static inline void edac_debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+					   struct dentry *parent, u16 *value)	{ }
 #endif
 
 /*
-- 
2.22.0


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* Re: [PATCH] edac: make edac_debugfs_create_x*() return void
  2019-06-11 17:54 [PATCH] edac: make edac_debugfs_create_x*() return void Greg Kroah-Hartman
@ 2019-06-15  9:00 ` Borislav Petkov
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Borislav Petkov @ 2019-06-15  9:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Greg Kroah-Hartman; +Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab, James Morse, linux-edac

On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 07:54:33PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> The return values of edac_debugfs_create_x16() and
> edac_debugfs_create_x8() are never checked (as they don't need to be),
> so no need to have them return anything, just make the functions return
> void instead.
> 
> This is done with the goal of being able to change the debugfs_create_x*
> functions to also not return a value.
> 
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
> Cc: <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/edac/debugfs.c     | 12 ++++++------
>  drivers/edac/edac_module.h | 18 ++++++++----------
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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