Re: [PATCH 1/4] arm64: dump: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

From: Will Deacon
Date: Thu Jan 31 2019 - 08:57:50 EST


On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 08:33:48PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 06:21:02PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 03:41:11PM +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: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@xxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Peng Donglin <dolinux.peng@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > arch/arm64/include/asm/ptdump.h | 9 +++------
> > > arch/arm64/mm/dump.c | 4 ++--
> > > arch/arm64/mm/ptdump_debugfs.c | 7 ++-----
> > > 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> >
> > Are you taking this via your tree, or would you like us to queue it in
> > arm64?
>
> What ever is easiest for you is fine with me, I can handle it either
> way, just let me know.

It's easy enough for us to merge the arm64 bits, so we'll pick that up for
5.1.

Cheers,

Will