The documentation of the 'debugfs_create_str' says that the function
returns a pointer to a dentry created, or an ERR_PTR in case of error.
Actually, this is not true: this function doesn't return anything at all.
Correct the documentation correspondingly.
Signed-off-by: Ivan Orlov <[email protected]>
---
fs/debugfs/file.c | 9 ---------
1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 1f971c880dde..b7711888dd17 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -940,15 +940,6 @@ static const struct file_operations fops_str_wo = {
* This function creates a file in debugfs with the given name that
* contains the value of the variable @value. If the @mode variable is so
* set, it can be read from, and written to.
- *
- * This function will return a pointer to a dentry if it succeeds. This
- * pointer must be passed to the debugfs_remove() function when the file is
- * to be removed (no automatic cleanup happens if your module is unloaded,
- * you are responsible here.) If an error occurs, ERR_PTR(-ERROR) will be
- * returned.
- *
- * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) will
- * be returned.
*/
void debugfs_create_str(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, char **value)
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