Re: [PATCH 1/8] hwmon: applesmc: Relax the severity of device init failure

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Hi Henrik,

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:50:27AM -0400, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> The device init is used to reset the accelerometer. Failure to reset
> is not severe enough to stop loading the module or to resume from
> hibernation.  This patch relaxes failure to a warning and drops
> output in case of success.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c |   24 ++----------------------
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
> index d7a5b75..375e464 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/applesmc.c
> @@ -458,21 +458,8 @@ static int applesmc_device_init(void)
>  	mutex_lock(&applesmc_lock);
>  
Since the callers of applesmc_device_init() now all don't check the return value,
it might make sense to declare it as void and not bother returning an error.

Otherwise looks good.

Thanks,
Guenter

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