[PATCH -next] phy: realtek: usb: Drop unnecessary error check for debugfs_create_dir

Ruan Jinjie ruanjinjie at huawei.com
Thu Aug 3 18:17:51 PDT 2023


Ping.

On 2023/7/28 14:27, Ruan Jinjie wrote:
> This patch removes the error checking for debugfs_create_dir in
> phy-rtk-usb2.c and phy-rtk-usb3.c. This is because the debugfs_create_dir()
> does not return NULL but an ERR_PTR after an error.
> 
> The DebugFS kernel API is developed in a way that the caller can safely
> ignore the errors that occur during the creation of DebugFS nodes.
> The debugfs APIs have a IS_ERR() judge in start_creating() which can
> handle it gracefully. so these checks are unnecessary.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ruan Jinjie <ruanjinjie at huawei.com>
> ---
>  drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb2.c | 2 --
>  drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb3.c | 2 --
>  2 files changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb2.c b/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb2.c
> index ed47a1ce5d9c..715cd9480347 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb2.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb2.c
> @@ -853,8 +853,6 @@ static inline void create_debug_files(struct rtk_phy *rtk_phy)
>  
>  	rtk_phy->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(rtk_phy->dev),
>  						phy_debug_root);
> -	if (!rtk_phy->debug_dir)
> -		return;
>  
>  	if (!debugfs_create_file("parameter", 0444, rtk_phy->debug_dir, rtk_phy,
>  				 &rtk_usb2_parameter_fops))
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb3.c b/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb3.c
> index 6050f1ef4f6b..6d726926607a 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb3.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/realtek/phy-rtk-usb3.c
> @@ -416,8 +416,6 @@ static inline void create_debug_files(struct rtk_phy *rtk_phy)
>  		return;
>  
>  	rtk_phy->debug_dir = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(rtk_phy->dev), phy_debug_root);
> -	if (!rtk_phy->debug_dir)
> -		return;
>  
>  	if (!debugfs_create_file("parameter", 0444, rtk_phy->debug_dir, rtk_phy,
>  				 &rtk_usb3_parameter_fops))



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