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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-11 15:29:26 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-10-14 12:18:07 +0200
commitad26221fb9e64e69e32a2caf58dba067ca4e815e (patch)
tree4063f735f31b8799de21c422088514868f41c4f6
parent313f5dbba41d905d59c820bb2d91ee6c661aff99 (diff)
debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_u64()
No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_u64(), 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/20191011132931.1186197-3-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt4
-rw-r--r--fs/debugfs/file.c15
-rw-r--r--include/linux/debugfs.h12
3 files changed, 9 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 6abcf41fbd37..1b299ae4904d 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ created with any of:
struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
- struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
+ void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
These files support both reading and writing the given value; if a specific
file should not be written to, simply set the mode bits accordingly. The
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 8091a7ef3589..4c8912d7d34c 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -538,20 +538,11 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u64_wo, NULL, debugfs_u64_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_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u64 *value)
+void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u64 *value)
{
- return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u64,
+ debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u64,
&fops_u64_ro, &fops_u64_wo);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_u64);
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index c83a33a76b6c..b3bed4d61733 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ void 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,
struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
-struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
+void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u64 *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, unsigned long *value);
struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
@@ -257,12 +257,8 @@ static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
}
-static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent,
- u64 *value)
-{
- return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
+static inline void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u64 *value) { }
static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name,
umode_t mode,