[PATCH 5/8] debugfs: remove return value of debugfs_create_x8()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

No one checks the return value of debugfs_create_x8(), 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 <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt |  4 ++--
 fs/debugfs/file.c                     |  6 +++---
 include/linux/debugfs.h               | 12 ++++--------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt 
b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
index 55a5da08c71c..2c4ea9b73572 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ file should not be written to, simply set the mode bits 
accordingly.  The
 values in these files are in decimal; if hexadecimal is more appropriate,
 the following functions can be used instead:
 
-    struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-                                    struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
+    void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+                          struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
     struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
                                      struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
     struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
diff --git a/fs/debugfs/file.c b/fs/debugfs/file.c
index dfeda13023b3..693c9336b040 100644
--- a/fs/debugfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/debugfs/file.c
@@ -633,10 +633,10 @@ DEFINE_DEBUGFS_ATTRIBUTE(fops_x64_wo, NULL, 
debugfs_u64_set, "0x%016llx\n");
  * @value: a pointer to the variable that the file should read to and write
  *         from.
  */
-struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-                                struct dentry *parent, u8 *value)
+void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+                      u8 *value)
 {
-       return debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_x8,
+       debugfs_create_mode_unsafe(name, mode, parent, value, &fops_x8,
                                   &fops_x8_ro, &fops_x8_wo);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debugfs_create_x8);
diff --git a/include/linux/debugfs.h b/include/linux/debugfs.h
index 1d859bc657bd..70d38dc6b151 100644
--- a/include/linux/debugfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/debugfs.h
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ void debugfs_create_u64(const char *name, umode_t mode, 
struct dentry *parent,
                        u64 *value);
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const char *name, umode_t mode,
                                    struct dentry *parent, unsigned long 
*value);
-struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-                                struct dentry *parent, u8 *value);
+void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode, struct dentry *parent,
+                      u8 *value);
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
                                  struct dentry *parent, u16 *value);
 struct dentry *debugfs_create_x32(const char *name, umode_t mode,
@@ -268,12 +268,8 @@ static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_ulong(const 
char *name,
        return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
 }
 
-static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
-                                              struct dentry *parent,
-                                              u8 *value)
-{
-       return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
-}
+static inline void debugfs_create_x8(const char *name, umode_t mode,
+                                    struct dentry *parent, u8 *value) { }
 
 static inline struct dentry *debugfs_create_x16(const char *name, umode_t mode,
                                                struct dentry *parent,
-- 
2.23.0