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From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:00:30 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/arc: make arcpgu_debugfs_init return 0
To:     Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 6:28 PM Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As drm_debugfs_create_files should return void, remove its use as the
> return value of arcpgu_debugfs_init and have the latter function
> return 0 directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Wambui Karuga <wambui.karugax@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/arc/arcpgu_drv.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/arc/arcpgu_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/arc/arcpgu_drv.c
> index d6a6692db0ac..660b25f9588e 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/arc/arcpgu_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/arc/arcpgu_drv.c
> @@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ static struct drm_info_list arcpgu_debugfs_list[] = {
>
>  static int arcpgu_debugfs_init(struct drm_minor *minor)
>  {
> -       return drm_debugfs_create_files(arcpgu_debugfs_list,
> -               ARRAY_SIZE(arcpgu_debugfs_list), minor->debugfs_root, minor);
> +       drm_debugfs_create_files(arcpgu_debugfs_list,
> +                                ARRAY_SIZE(arcpgu_debugfs_list),
> +                                minor->debugfs_root, minor);
> +       return 0;

For cases like these I think we should go a step further and also
remove the return value from the driver wrapper. And that all the way
up until there's something that actually needs to return a value for
some other reason than debugfs.
-Daniel

>  }
>  #endif
>
> --
> 2.25.0
>


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