Revert "configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors."

This reverts commit 11c3b79218390a139f2d474ee1e983a672d5839a.  The code
will move to PTR_ERR().

Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
index 387a13395015..665341e43055 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c
@@ -585,9 +585,8 @@ static struct config_item_type netconsole_target_type = {
  * Group operations and type for netconsole_subsys.
  */
 
-static int make_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
-                                  const char *name,
-                                  struct config_item **new_item)
+static struct config_item *make_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
+                                                  const char *name)
 {
         unsigned long flags;
         struct netconsole_target *nt;
@@ -599,7 +598,7 @@ static int make_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
         nt = kzalloc(sizeof(*nt), GFP_KERNEL);
         if (!nt) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR "netconsole: failed to allocate memory\n");
-                return -ENOMEM;
+                return NULL;
         }
 
         nt->np.name = "netconsole";
@@ -616,8 +615,7 @@ static int make_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,
         list_add(&nt->list, &target_list);
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags);
 
-        *new_item = &nt->item;
-        return 0;
+        return &nt->item;
 }
 
 static void drop_netconsole_target(struct config_group *group,