Re: [PATCH] usb: musb: debugfs: fix error check

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On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 06:49:30AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 02:23:37PM +0200, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> > debugfs will return NULL on failure if
> > debugfs is enabled or -ENODEV if debugfs
> > isn't enabled.
> > 
> > Need to handle both cases.
> 
> No you should not.  Just don't check for NULL, and continue on, that is
> why the debugfs api was created the way it is.  You don't want to error
> out of your code if debugfs isn't enabled, just ignore it.
> 
> So the code, as-is, is just fine, please don't apply this.

No, I was wrong, change the code to just check for NULL and you should
be fine.

greg k-h
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