[PATCH 5/8] debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_x8()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Oct 11 2019 - 09:29:58 EST


No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_x8(), as it's not
needed, so make the return value void, so that no one tries to do so in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 4 ++--
fs/debugfs/file.c | 6 +++---
include/linux/debugfs.h | 12 ++++--------
3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 55a5da08c71c..2c4ea9b73572 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ file should not be written to, simply set the mode bits accordingly. The
values in these files are in decimal; if hexadecimal is more appropriate,
the following functions can be used instead:

- struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
+ void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index dfeda13023b3..693c9336b040 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -633,10 +633,10 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_x64_wo, NULL, debugfs_u64_set, "0x%016llx\n");
* @value: a pointer to the variable that the file should read to and write
* from.
*/
-struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)
+void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u8 *value)
{
- return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_x8,
+ debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_x8,
&fops_x8_ro, &fops_x8_wo);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_x8);
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 1d859bc657bd..70d38dc6b151 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
u64 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, unsigned long *value);
-struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
+void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u8 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
@@ -268,12 +268,8 @@ static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name,
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}

-static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent,
- u8 *value)
-{
- return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
+static inline void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u8 *value) { }

static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent,
--
2.23.0