[PATCH v2] media: aspeed: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_file()

Eddie James eajames at linux.ibm.com
Mon Oct 9 06:50:22 PDT 2023


On 10/7/23 03:43, Jinjie Ruan wrote:
> debugfs_create_file() return ERR_PTR and never return NULL.
>
> 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.


Thanks!

Reviewed-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>


>
> Fixes: 52fed10ad756 ("media: aspeed: add debugfs")
> Signed-off-by: Jinjie Ruan <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
> Suggested-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco at xs4all.nl>
> ---
> v2:
> - Remove the err check instead of using IS_ERR to replace NULL check.
> - Add suggested-by.
> - Update the commit title and message.
> ---
>   drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c | 15 +++------------
>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c b/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c
> index a9c2c69b2ed9..d08aa7f73d4f 100644
> --- a/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/platform/aspeed/aspeed-video.c
> @@ -1970,22 +1970,15 @@ static void aspeed_video_debugfs_remove(struct aspeed_video *video)
>   	debugfs_entry = NULL;
>   }
>   
> -static int aspeed_video_debugfs_create(struct aspeed_video *video)
> +static void aspeed_video_debugfs_create(struct aspeed_video *video)
>   {
>   	debugfs_entry = debugfs_create_file(DEVICE_NAME, 0444, NULL,
>   					    video,
>   					    &aspeed_video_debugfs_fops);
> -	if (!debugfs_entry)
> -		aspeed_video_debugfs_remove(video);
> -
> -	return !debugfs_entry ? -EIO : 0;
>   }
>   #else
>   static void aspeed_video_debugfs_remove(struct aspeed_video *video) { }
> -static int aspeed_video_debugfs_create(struct aspeed_video *video)
> -{
> -	return 0;
> -}
> +static void aspeed_video_debugfs_create(struct aspeed_video *video) { }
>   #endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_FS */
>   
>   static int aspeed_video_setup_video(struct aspeed_video *video)
> @@ -2198,9 +2191,7 @@ static int aspeed_video_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   		return rc;
>   	}
>   
> -	rc = aspeed_video_debugfs_create(video);
> -	if (rc)
> -		dev_err(video->dev, "debugfs create failed\n");
> +	aspeed_video_debugfs_create(video);
>   
>   	return 0;
>   }



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