Re: [PATCH] drivers: regulator: core: remove return value check of `regulator_init`

From: Mark Brown
Date: Mon Apr 24 2023 - 07:56:00 EST


On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 08:27:31PM +0800, Yuchen Yang wrote:
> Smatch complains that:
> regulator_init() warn: 'debugfs_root' is an error pointer or valid
>
> According to the documentation of the debugfs_create_dir() function,
> there is no need to check the return value of this function.
> Just delete the dead code.

This is very much a taste and use case question, you can't just delete
error checks without thought.

> Fixes: 247514344492 ("regulator: Remove ifdefs for debugfs code")

Don't just throw random Fixes tags on things :(

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