Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH] debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_bool() | Date | Fri, 21 May 2021 20:45:19 +0200 |
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No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_bool(), 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> --- Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst | 4 ++-- fs/debugfs/file.c | 15 +++------------ include/linux/debugfs.h | 12 ++++-------- 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst index 0f2292e367e6..71b1fee56d2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.rst @@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ and hexadecimal:: Boolean values can be placed in debugfs with:: - struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, bool *value); + void debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, bool *value); A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c index d513d5465c89..6ede714cb551 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/file.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c @@ -836,20 +836,11 @@ static const struct file_operations fops_bool_wo = { * 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_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, bool *value) +void debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, + bool *value) { - return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_bool, + debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_bool, &fops_bool_ro, &fops_bool_wo); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_bool); diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h index 4e82f2b1fa62..c869f1e73d75 100644 --- a/include/linux/debugfs.h +++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h @@ -126,8 +126,8 @@ void debugfs_create_size_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, size_t *value); void debugfs_create_atomic_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, atomic_t *value); -struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, bool *value); +void debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, + bool *value); void debugfs_create_str(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, char **value); @@ -291,12 +291,8 @@ static inline void debugfs_create_atomic_t(const char *name, umode_t mode, atomic_t *value) { } -static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, - struct dentry *parent, - bool *value) -{ - return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV); -} +static inline void debugfs_create_bool(const char *name, umode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, bool *value) { } static inline void debugfs_create_str(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, -- 2.31.1
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