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Date:	Sat, 10 Sep 2011 14:22:22 +0000
From:	KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	"gregkh@...e.de" <gregkh@...e.de>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...uxdriverproject.org" <devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
	"virtualization@...ts.osdl.org" <virtualization@...ts.osdl.org>,
	Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 10/25] Staging: hv: vmbus: Return proper error code in
 vmbus_remove()



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@...ah.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 4:43 PM
> To: KY Srinivasan
> Cc: gregkh@...e.de; linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org;
> devel@...uxdriverproject.org; virtualization@...ts.osdl.org; Haiyang Zhang
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/25] Staging: hv: vmbus: Return proper error code in
> vmbus_remove()
> 
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 07:24:21AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote:
> > Return proper error code in vmbus_remove().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > index b9aeb76..95d33a4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/hv/vmbus_drv.c
> > @@ -325,7 +325,7 @@ static int vmbus_probe(struct device *child_device)
> >   */
> >  static int vmbus_remove(struct device *child_device)
> >  {
> > -	int ret;
> > +	int ret = 0;
> 
> As remove functions can't fail, why return anything at all?
> 
> Doesn't make sense, please fix.

Greg,

Looking at the struct bus_type, the remove function is not a void function.
I was just fixing something that was broken in this function.

Regards,

K. Y

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