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)

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