From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> The failure to create debugfs entry is unpleasant event, but not enough to abort drier initialization. Align the mlx5_core code to debugfs design and continue execution whenever debugfs_create_dir() successes or not. Fixes: e126ba97dba9 ("mlx5: Add driver for Mellanox Connect-IB adapters") Reviewed-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- It goes to -next and not to -rc, because this issue was forever. --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c | 8 +++----- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c index 778995573812..93fa48a7eabb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx5/core/main.c @@ -661,11 +661,9 @@ static int mlx5_pci_init(struct mlx5_core_dev *dev, struct mlx5_priv *priv) priv->numa_node = dev_to_node(&dev->pdev->dev); - priv->dbg_root = debugfs_create_dir(dev_name(&pdev->dev), mlx5_debugfs_root); - if (!priv->dbg_root) { - dev_err(&pdev->dev, "Cannot create debugfs dir, aborting\n"); - return -ENOMEM; - } + if (mlx5_debugfs_root) + priv->dbg_root = + debugfs_create_dir(pci_name(pdev), mlx5_debugfs_root); err = mlx5_pci_enable_device(dev); if (err) { -- 2.19.1