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Date:   Tue, 5 Nov 2019 16:30:08 +0200
From:   Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB: mlx5: no need to check return value of
 debugfs_create functions
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 08:41:41AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> When calling debugfs functions, there is no need to ever check the
> return value.  The function can work or not, but the code logic should
> never do something different based on this.
>
> Cc: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
> Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/main.c    | 62 +++++++---------------------
>  drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx5/mlx5_ib.h |  9 +---
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 55 deletions(-)
>
> Note, I kind of need to take this through my tree now as I broke the
> build due to me changing the use of debugfs_create_atomic_t() in my
> tree and not noticing this being used here.  Sorry about that, any
> objections?
>
> And 0-day seems really broken to have missed this for the past months,
> ugh, I need to stop relying on it...
>

Thanks,
Acked-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>