debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_u16()

No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_u16(), 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>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191011132931.1186197-2-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index 2d5d9a0a6f57..8091a7ef3589 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -456,20 +456,11 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_u16_wo, NULL, debugfs_u16_set, "%llu\n");
  * 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_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-				  struct dentry *parent, u16 *value)
+void debugfs_create_u16(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+			u16 *value)
 {
-	return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u16,
+	debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_u16,
 				   &fops_u16_ro, &fops_u16_wo);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_u16);