linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/4] void unregister_blkdev

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Message-ID: <961aa3350706300708l3bd4ab31ob9646847ea4f4537@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:08:06 +0900
From:	"Akinobu Mita" <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	"Grant Likely" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Eberhard Moenkeberg" <emoenke@...g.de>,
	"Joe Thornber" <dm-devel@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] void unregister_blkdev - delete redundant messages

2007/6/30, Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>:
> On 6/29/07, Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com> wrote:
> > No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by the callers.
> > (The previous patch makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in
> > error case)
>
> Seeing as none of the callers check the error code; why does the
> function return anything at all?

Right. This series of patches is trying to make it return void.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/29/320
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