Re: [PATCH 4.19 105/191] memory: emif: Remove bogus debugfs error handling

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Nov 12 2020 - 15:01:59 EST


Hi!

> From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> [ Upstream commit fd22781648080cc400772b3c68aa6b059d2d5420 ]
>
> Callers are generally not supposed to check the return values from
> debugfs functions. Debugfs functions never return NULL so this error
> handling will never trigger. (Historically debugfs functions used to
> return a mix of NULL and error pointers but it was eventually deemed too
> complicated for something which wasn't intended to be used in normal
> situations).
>
> Delete all the error handling.

This is wrong for 4.19.

Memory functions still return NULL here.

Best regards,
Pavel

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