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Diffstat (limited to 'fs/debugfs')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/debugfs/inode.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/inode.c b/fs/debugfs/inode.c index 2f117c57160d..3dcf0b8b4e93 100644 --- a/fs/debugfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/debugfs/inode.c @@ -450,6 +450,11 @@ static struct dentry *__debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, * * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be * returned. + * + * NOTE: it's expected that most callers should _ignore_ the errors returned + * by this function. Other debugfs functions handle the fact that the "dentry" + * passed to them could be an error and they don't crash in that case. + * Drivers should generally work fine even if debugfs fails to init anyway. */ struct dentry *debugfs_create_file(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent, void *data, @@ -551,6 +556,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_file_size); * * If debugfs is not enabled in the kernel, the value -%ENODEV will be * returned. + * + * NOTE: it's expected that most callers should _ignore_ the errors returned + * by this function. Other debugfs functions handle the fact that the "dentry" + * passed to them could be an error and they don't crash in that case. + * Drivers should generally work fine even if debugfs fails to init anyway. */ struct dentry *debugfs_create_dir(const char *name, struct dentry *parent) { |