Ben Dooks wrote: > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote: >> From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> >> >> The return value of the remove function of a driver structure, and thus of >> a platform_driver structure, is ultimately ignored, and is thus >> unnecessary. This patch removes the return value for the remove function >> stored in a platform_driver structure. >> >> For the files drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c and >> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c, the original return value was the value >> of a variable storing the result of calling i2c_del_adapter. I have thus >> also deleted the declaration and initialization of this variable. For the >> other files, the return values were always 0. >> >> A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as >> follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) > > I take it remove_new will eventually be renamed to remove once all > the changes have been made? > > Unless there are any objections I'll add this to the merge list for > the next window. Please be careful since the drivers/base/ part has not been applied yet, so I'm Cc:ing Greg now for his opinion. Dmitri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
