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brcmfmac: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions

Message ID 20200429101526.GA2094124@kroah.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit ea1b3bc6d5ad95fef32811bec7df37f51809f4e1
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Series brcmfmac: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions | expand

Commit Message

Greg KH April 29, 2020, 10:15 a.m. UTC
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.

In doing this, make brcmf_debugfs_add_entry() return void as no one was
even paying attention to the return value.

Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Cc: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
Cc: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
Cc: Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>
Cc: Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c |  9 +++------
 .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h | 12 +++++-------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Comments

Arend van Spriel April 29, 2020, 10:24 a.m. UTC | #1
On 4/29/2020 12:15 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman 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.
> 
> In doing this, make brcmf_debugfs_add_entry() return void as no one was
> even paying attention to the return value.
> 
> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>
> Cc: Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
> Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>   .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c |  9 +++------
>   .../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h | 12 +++++-------
>   2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
Kalle Valo May 4, 2020, 9:50 a.m. UTC | #2
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> 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.
> 
> In doing this, make brcmf_debugfs_add_entry() return void as no one was
> even paying attention to the return value.
> 
> Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Franky Lin <franky.lin@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Hante Meuleman <hante.meuleman@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Chi-Hsien Lin <chi-hsien.lin@cypress.com>
> Cc: Wright Feng <wright.feng@cypress.com>
> Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Pieter-Paul Giesberts <pieter-paul.giesberts@broadcom.com>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@broadcom.com
> Cc: brcm80211-dev-list@cypress.com
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>

Patch applied to wireless-drivers-next.git, thanks.

ea1b3bc6d5ad brcmfmac: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c
index 120515fe8250..eecf8a38d94a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.c
@@ -47,13 +47,10 @@  struct dentry *brcmf_debugfs_get_devdir(struct brcmf_pub *drvr)
 	return drvr->wiphy->debugfsdir;
 }
 
-int brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
+void brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
 			    int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *seq, void *data))
 {
-	struct dentry *e;
-
 	WARN(!drvr->wiphy->debugfsdir, "wiphy not (yet) registered\n");
-	e = debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(drvr->bus_if->dev, fn,
-					drvr->wiphy->debugfsdir, read_fn);
-	return PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(e);
+	debugfs_create_devm_seqfile(drvr->bus_if->dev, fn,
+				    drvr->wiphy->debugfsdir, read_fn);
 }
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
index 9b221b509ade..4146faeed344 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/debug.h
@@ -116,8 +116,8 @@  struct brcmf_bus;
 struct brcmf_pub;
 #ifdef DEBUG
 struct dentry *brcmf_debugfs_get_devdir(struct brcmf_pub *drvr);
-int brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
-			    int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *seq, void *data));
+void brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
+			     int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *seq, void *data));
 int brcmf_debug_create_memdump(struct brcmf_bus *bus, const void *data,
 			       size_t len);
 #else
@@ -126,11 +126,9 @@  static inline struct dentry *brcmf_debugfs_get_devdir(struct brcmf_pub *drvr)
 	return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
 }
 static inline
-int brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
-			    int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *seq, void *data))
-{
-	return 0;
-}
+void brcmf_debugfs_add_entry(struct brcmf_pub *drvr, const char *fn,
+			     int (*read_fn)(struct seq_file *seq, void *data))
+{ }
 static inline
 int brcmf_debug_create_memdump(struct brcmf_bus *bus, const void *data,
 			       size_t len)