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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst4
-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.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst
index db9ea0854040..6c032db235a5 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst
@@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ created with any of::
struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
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);
+ void debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u32 *value);
void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u64 *value);
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 2d357680094c..ae49a55bda00 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -506,20 +506,11 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u32_wo, NULL, debugfs_u32_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_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent, u32 *value)
+void debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u32 *value)
{
- return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u32,
+ debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u32,
&fops_u32_ro, &fops_u32_wo);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_u32);
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index a274d95fa66e..63cb3606dea7 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -103,8 +103,8 @@ void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
u8 *value);
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);
+void debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+ u32 *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,
@@ -250,12 +250,8 @@ static inline void debugfs_create_u8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
static inline void debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u16 *value) { }
-static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
- struct dentry *parent,
- u32 *value)
-{
- return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
+static inline void debugfs_create_u32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+ struct dentry *parent, u32 *value) { }
static inline void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode,
struct dentry *parent, u64 *value) { }