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From: Peter Enderborg <peter.enderborg@sony.com>
To: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>, Yingsha Xu <ysxu@hust.edu.cn>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>,
	linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spi: remove return value check of debugfs_create_dir()
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2023 14:20:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <368e31ae-31b5-839f-72e3-20a27239cb0b@sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <eb3c6aa6-6820-4e94-8eb0-5abd3b627fcc@sirena.org.uk>

On 4/24/23 13:54, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2023 at 02:11:54PM +0800, Yingsha Xu wrote:
>> Smatch complains that:
>> dw_spi_debugfs_init() warn: 'dws->debugfs' is an error pointer
>>  or valid
>>
>> Debugfs checks are generally not supposed to be checked for errors
>> and it is not necessary here.
>>
>> Just delete the dead code.
> 
> This is very much a question of taste with a range of use cases
> available.

No. 
https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1901.2/05993.html
We can do things with the debug information without filesystem enabled.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-04-24 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-23  6:11 Yingsha Xu
2023-04-24 11:54 ` Mark Brown
2023-04-24 12:20   ` Peter Enderborg [this message]
2023-04-24 12:32     ` Mark Brown
2023-04-24 12:53       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-24 13:00         ` Mark Brown
2023-04-24 13:08           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-24 13:17             ` Mark Brown
2023-04-24 13:17         ` Peter Enderborg
2023-04-24 13:22           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2023-04-24 13:54             ` Peter Enderborg
2023-04-25  5:31               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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