On 10/17/2012 02:12 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 03:13:16PM -0400, Devendra Naga wrote:
>> if debugfs is not enabled in kernel it returns -ENODEV, check it
>> with IS_ERR_OR_NULL along with the null return if it fails to
>> create a file in debugfs.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@xxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/mach-tegra/powergate.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/powergate.c b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/powergate.c
>> index de0662d..1809b91d 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/mach-tegra/powergate.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/mach-tegra/powergate.c
>> @@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ int __init tegra_powergate_debugfs_init(void)
>> if (powergate_name) {
>> d = debugfs_create_file("powergate", S_IRUGO, NULL, NULL,
>> &powergate_fops);
>> - if (!d)
>> + if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(d))
>> return -ENOMEM;
>
> So, you want to make this function hard-fail if a debugfs error occurs
> _or_ debugfs is not configured? That doesn't seem to be a clever thing
> to do.
In practice, that quoted chunk of code is inside an #ifdef
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, so according to the documentation for
debugfs_create_file(), the IS_ERR case of IS_ERR_OR_NULL cannot happen
here. So, the above change is a no-op, so there's not much point
applying it.
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