The previous few commits have made this more obvious, and removed the
one exception.  Time to clarify the documentation, and drop dead error
checking.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200424084338.26803-13-armbru@redhat.com>