linux-kernel - [PATCH -next 3/3] devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete

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Message-ID: <20230210073309.4050841-4-xialonglong1@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 10 Feb 2023 07:33:09 +0000
From:   Longlong Xia <xialonglong1@...wei.com>
To:     <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
CC:     <chenwandun@...wei.com>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <rafael@...nel.org>, <sunnanyong@...wei.com>,
        <wangkefeng.wang@...wei.com>, <xialonglong1@...wei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next 3/3] devtmpfs: remove return value of devtmpfs_delete_node()

The only caller of device_del() does not check the return value. And
there's nothing we can do when cleaning things up on a remove path.
Let's make it a void function.

Signed-off-by: Longlong Xia <xialonglong1@...wei.com>
---
 drivers/base/base.h     | 4 ++--
 drivers/base/devtmpfs.c | 8 ++++----
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 0e806f641079..f7996bf8d28b 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -201,10 +201,10 @@ void device_pm_move_to_tail(struct device *dev);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
 int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev);
-int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev);
+void devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev);
 #else
 static inline int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
-static inline int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
+static inline void devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev) { return 0; }
 #endif
 
 void software_node_notify(struct device *dev);
diff --git a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
index 7789b7be4ee5..e5c4d3e98ec9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
+++ b/drivers/base/devtmpfs.c
@@ -147,22 +147,22 @@ int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev)
 	return devtmpfs_submit_req(&req, tmp);
 }
 
-int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev)
+void devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev)
 {
 	const char *tmp = NULL;
 	struct req req;
 
 	if (!thread)
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	req.name = device_get_devnode(dev, NULL, NULL, NULL, &tmp);
 	if (!req.name)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return;
 
 	req.mode = 0;
 	req.dev = dev;
 
-	return devtmpfs_submit_req(&req, tmp);
+	devtmpfs_submit_req(&req, tmp);
 }
 
 static int dev_mkdir(const char *name, umode_t mode)
-- 
2.25.1