On Fri, 8 Dec 2017 11:14:56 +0900, Prashant Bhole wrote: > Initial discussion started about correct handling of this condition. > Later it was decided to remove this check altogether to make it > consistent. > > Removal of this check isn't fatal to this driver. > > Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant...@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicin...@netronome.com> but as I mentioned there is another, similar check in netdevsim/bpf.c: "... drop this error handling here and in nsim_bpf_create_prog()." > diff --git a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c > index eb8c679fca9f..6d4b35f26ae5 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c > +++ b/drivers/net/netdevsim/netdev.c > @@ -469,8 +469,6 @@ static int __init nsim_module_init(void) > int err; > > nsim_ddir = debugfs_create_dir(DRV_NAME, NULL); > - if (IS_ERR(nsim_ddir)) > - return PTR_ERR(nsim_ddir); > > err = bus_register(&nsim_bus); > if (err)