linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/25] Staging: hv: vmbus: Return proper error code in vmbus

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Date:	Fri, 9 Sep 2011 13:43:09 -0700
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	"K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@...rosoft.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.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()

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 k-h
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