Re: [PATCH] drm/arm: make hdlcd_debugfs_init return 0

From: Liviu Dudau
Date: Mon Feb 24 2020 - 08:59:15 EST


Hi,

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 08:28:13PM +0300, Wambui Karuga wrote:
> As drm_debugfs_create_files should return void, remove its use as a
> return value in hdlcd_debugfs_init and have the latter function return 0
> directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c
> index 2e053815b54a..bd0ad6f46a97 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arm/hdlcd_drv.c
> @@ -226,8 +226,10 @@ static struct drm_info_list hdlcd_debugfs_list[] = {
>
> static int hdlcd_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
> {
> - return drm_debugfs_create_files(hdlcd_debugfs_list,
> - ARRAY_SIZE(hdlcd_debugfs_list), minor->debugfs_root, minor);
> + drm_debugfs_create_files(hdlcd_debugfs_list,
> + ARRAY_SIZE(hdlcd_debugfs_list),
> + minor->debugfs_root, minor);
> + return 0;
> }
> #endif
>
> --
> 2.25.0
>

Thanks for your patch! I had to go into the ML and find out the series where this
patch belongs to and seen that you have already received some feedback, but I think
a summary is worth:

- you should look if it is possible to make .debugfs_init hook return void, it would
simplify the cleanup in the drivers by not having to return 0.
- you should put in each driver patch a note that drm_debugfs_create_files() always
returns 0 since 987d65d01356 (drm: debugfs: make drm_debugfs_create_files() never fail)
so that people don't have to hunt in the git history for clues.
- Make all the changes into a series

With that, you can have my Acked-by: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@xxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Liviu

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