From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 2019 18:11:11 +0200
> There is no need to test the result of any debugfs call anymore. The > debugfs core warns the user if something fails, and the return value of > a debugfs call can always be fed back into another debugfs call with no > problems. > > Also, debugfs is for debugging, so if there are problems with debugfs > (i.e. the system is out of memory) the rest of the kernel should not > change behavior, so testing for debugfs calls is pointless and not the > goal of debugfs at all. > > This series cleans up a lot of networking drivers and some wimax code > that was calling debugfs and trying to do something with the return > value that it didn't need to. Removing this logic makes the code > smaller, easier to understand, and use less run-time memory in some > cases, all good things. > > The series is against net-next, and have no dependancies between any of > them if they want to go through any random tree/order. Or, if wanted, > I can take them through my driver-core tree where other debugfs cleanups > are being slowly fed during major merge windows. I applied this without patch #17 which you said you would respin in order to get rid of the now unused local variable. Thanks.
