linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] i2c: Ignore return value of i2c_del

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Date:	Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:52:11 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
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>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Lars Poeschel <poeschel@...onage.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] i2c: Ignore return value of i2c_del_adapter()

On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 19:16 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> i2c_del_adapter() always returns 0. So all checks testing whether it will be
> non zero will always evaluate to false and the conditional code is dead code.
> This patch updates all callers of i2c_del_mux_adapter() to ignore the return
> value and assume that it will always succeed (which it will). In a subsequent
> patch the return type of i2c_del_adapter() will be made void.
> 
> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>
> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
> Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
(for the sfc changes)

> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@...ux.intel.com>
> Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>
> Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@...x.de> (commit_signer:11/20=55%)

You should probably remove that get_maintainer.pl annotation!

Ben.

> Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...aro.org>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Lars Poeschel <poeschel@...onage.de>
> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>
[...]

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