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

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Tue Jan 22 2019 - 10:53:11 EST


On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:40 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 04:28:42PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 4:27 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Len Brown <lenb@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: linux-acpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Or do you want me to take this?
>
> It's up to you, I can take it, or you can, either is fine with me :)

OK, I'll take it in case there is a clash with a different patch or similar.