Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756444Ab3CaJYV (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:24:21 -0400 Received: from zoneX.GCU-Squad.org ([194.213.125.0]:34088 "EHLO services.gcu-squad.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756092Ab3CaJYT (ORCPT ); Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:24:19 -0400 Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:24:12 +0200 From: Jean Delvare To: Lars-Peter Clausen Cc: Wolfram Sang , Ben Dooks , linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] i2c: Make the return type of i2c_del_mux_adapter() void Message-ID: <20130331112412.13077c96@endymion.delvare> In-Reply-To: <1362853009-20789-7-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> References: <1362853009-20789-1-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> <1362853009-20789-7-git-send-email-lars@metafoo.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2052 Lines: 57 On Sat, 9 Mar 2013 19:16:49 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote: > i2c_del_mux_adapter always returns 0 and none of it current users check its > return value anyway. It is also an essential requirement of the Linux device > driver model, that functions which may be called from a device's remove callback > to free resources provided by the device, are not allowed to fail. This is the > case for i2c_del_mux_adapter(), so make its return type void to make the > fact that it won't fail explicit. > > Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen > --- > drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c | 4 +--- > include/linux/i2c-mux.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c > index 361b78d..7409ebb 100644 > --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c > +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-mux.c > @@ -191,14 +191,12 @@ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_add_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *parent, > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(i2c_add_mux_adapter); > > -int i2c_del_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap) > +void i2c_del_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap) > { > struct i2c_mux_priv *priv = adap->algo_data; > > i2c_del_adapter(adap); > kfree(priv); > - > - return 0; > } > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(i2c_del_mux_adapter); > > diff --git a/include/linux/i2c-mux.h b/include/linux/i2c-mux.h > index 40cb05a..b5f9a00 100644 > --- a/include/linux/i2c-mux.h > +++ b/include/linux/i2c-mux.h > @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_add_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *parent, > int (*deselect) (struct i2c_adapter *, > void *mux_dev, u32 chan_id)); > > -int i2c_del_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap); > +void i2c_del_mux_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adap); > > #endif /* __KERNEL__ */ > Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare -- Jean Delvare -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/