[PATCH v2] parisc: Make struct parisc_driver::remove() return void

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Sat Aug 7 13:59:50 CEST 2021


On Sat, Aug 7, 2021 at 10:19 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> The caller of this function (parisc_driver_remove() in
> arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c) ignores the return value, so better don't
> return any value at all to not wake wrong expectations in driver authors.
>
> The only function that could return a non-zero value before was
> ipmi_parisc_remove() which returns the return value of
> ipmi_si_remove_by_dev(). Make this function return void, too, as for all
> other callers the value is ignored, too.
>
> Also fold in a small checkpatch fix for:
>
> WARNING: Unnecessary space before function pointer arguments
> +       void (*remove) (struct parisc_device *dev);
>
> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com> (for drivers/input)
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> changes since v1 sent with Message-Id:
> 20210806093938.1950990-1-u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de:
>
>  - Fix a compiler error noticed by the kernel test robot
>  - Add Ack for Dmitry
>
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/parisc-device.h  | 4 ++--
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si.h              | 2 +-
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c         | 6 +-----
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_parisc.c       | 4 ++--
>  drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_platform.c     | 4 +++-
>  drivers/input/keyboard/hilkbd.c          | 4 +---
>  drivers/input/serio/gscps2.c             | 3 +--
>  drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/lasi_82596.c | 3 +--
>  drivers/parport/parport_gsc.c            | 3 +--

Acked-by:  Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com>


-- 
Regards
Sudip


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