linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make return type of i2c_del_adapter() (and i2c_del_mux

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Date:	Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:13:52 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
Cc:	Wolfram Sang <wsa@...-dreams.de>, Ben Dooks <ben-linux@...ff.org>,
	linux-i2c@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6]  Make return type of i2c_del_adapter() (and
 i2c_del_mux_adapter()) void

Hi Lars,

On Sat,  9 Mar 2013 19:16:43 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> Currently i2c_del_adapter() returns 0 on success and potentially an error code
> on failure. Unfortunately this doesn't mix too well with the Linux device driver
> model. (...)

I see:

struct device_driver {
	(...)
	int (*probe) (struct device *dev);
	int (*remove) (struct device *dev);

So the driver core does allow remove functions to return an error. Are
you going to fix all subsystems as you are doing for i2c now, and then
change device_driver.remove to return void? If not, I don't see the
point of changing it in i2c.

-- 
Jean Delvare
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