Re: [PATCH] IB: mlx5: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 04:59:14PM -0400, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:41:41AM +0100, 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.
> > 
> > Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c    | 62 +++++++---------------------
> >  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h |  9 +---
> >  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Note, I kind of need to take this through my tree now as I broke the
> > build due to me changing the use of debugfs_create_atomic_t() in my
> > tree and not noticing this being used here.  Sorry about that, any
> > objections?
> 
> I think it is fine, I don't forsee conflicts here at this point.

Thanks!

> To be clear, the build is broken in your tree and in linux-next?

Yeah, my fault :(

> > And 0-day seems really broken to have missed this for the past months,
> > ugh, I need to stop relying on it...
> 
> Yes, I've noticed it missing a lot of stuff now too. Not sure why

It is very hit-or-miss these days :(

thanks,

greg k-h