netdev - Re: [PATCH] parisc: Make struct parisc

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Date:   Fri, 6 Aug 2021 11:46:13 -0700
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...senpartnership.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Corey Minyard <minyard@....org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        "Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.com>, linux-parisc@...r.kernel.org,
        openipmi-developer@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] parisc: Make struct parisc_driver::remove() return void

On Fri, Aug 06, 2021 at 11:39:38AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The caller of this function (parisc_driver_remove() in
> arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c) ignores the return value, so better don't
> return any value at all to not wake wrong expectations in driver authors.
> 
> The only function that could return a non-zero value before was
> ipmi_parisc_remove() which returns the return value of
> ipmi_si_remove_by_dev(). Make this function return void, too, as for all
> other callers the value is ignored, too.
> 
> Also fold in a small checkpatch fix for:
> 
> WARNING: Unnecessary space before function pointer arguments
> +	void (*remove) (struct parisc_device *dev);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> ---

...

>  drivers/input/keyboard/hilkbd.c          | 4 +---
>  drivers/input/serio/gscps2.c             | 3 +--

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry