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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-10-11 15:29:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2019-10-14 12:18:06 +0200 |
| commit | 9655ac4aca20d654769b8f0d6a5be34b7ce7bad1 (patch) | |
| tree | 153b2150b33955d7dc2acae05ef7261363c39be6 | |
| parent | 0c580d83325ea9a126ce6ae2996c4ff97acd2e40 (diff) | |
debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_u8()
No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_u8(), as it's not
needed, so make the return value void, so that no one tries to do so in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191011132931.1186197-1-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/debugfs/file.c | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/debugfs.h | 12 |
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 9e27c843d00e..c146f18eb8ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ actually necessary; the debugfs code provides a number of helper functions for simple situations. Files containing a single integer value can be created with any of: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); + void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c index 87846aad594b..2d5d9a0a6f57 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/file.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c @@ -420,20 +420,11 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u8_wo, NULL, debugfs_u8_set, "%llu\n"); * 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. */ -struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u8 *value) +void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, + u8 *value) { - return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u8, + debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u8, &fops_u8_ro, &fops_u8_wo); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_u8); diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h index 58424eb3b329..8e071f599245 100644 --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h @@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ ssize_t debugfs_attr_write(struct file *file, const char __user *buf, struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry, struct dentry *new_dir, const char *new_name); -struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, u8 *value); +void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, + u8 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, u16 *value); struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, @@ -244,12 +244,8 @@ static inline struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, struct dentr return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); } -static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, - u8 *value) -{ - return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); -} +static inline void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, u8 *value) { } static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, |