Re: [PATCH 4/28] drivers/ide: Drop return value from platform_driver

[Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.fi>]

Ben Dooks wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 05:27:56PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
>> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
>>
>> The return value of the remove function of a driver structure, and thus of
>> a platform_driver structure, is ultimately ignored, and is thus
>> unnecessary.  This patch removes the return value for the remove function
>> stored in a platform_driver structure.
>>
>> For the files drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-at91.c and
>> drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-mv64xxx.c, the original return value was the value
>> of a variable storing the result of calling i2c_del_adapter.  I have thus
>> also deleted the declaration and initialization of this variable.  For the
>> other files, the return values were always 0.
>>
>> A simplified version of the semantic patch that makes this change is as
>> follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/)
> 
> I take it remove_new will eventually be renamed to remove once all
> the changes have been made?
> 
> Unless there are any objections I'll add this to the merge list for
> the next window.

Please be careful since the drivers/base/ part has not been applied yet, so I'm Cc:ing Greg now for his opinion.

Dmitri