Re: [PATCH] SCSI: fix the return type of the remove() method in sgiwd93.c

[James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 18:52 +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 18:08, James Bottomley
> <James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 18:24 +0200, Vorobiev Dmitri wrote:
> >> > This patch fixes the following compilation warning:
> >> >
> >> >   CC [M]  drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.o
> >> > drivers/scsi/sgiwd93.c:314: warning: initialization from incompatible
> >> > pointer type
> >>
> >> Any news about this one? I think this patch should go via linux-scsi,
> >> unless you would be insisting on pushing it via linux-mips, in which case
> >> I'll politely bug Ralf about it. :)
> >
> > Looks OK for the local change.
> >
> > Globally, having driver->remove and platform_driver->remove return int
> > instead of void looks wrong.  Particularly when the only use cases are
> > in drivers/base/ and they all ignore the return code.
> >
> > Greg and Kay ... shouldn't we simply redefine the return values for the
> > remove methods in these structures to return void (and thus match the
> > use case)?
> 
> Aren't there many many drivers across the tree, using the "int remove" version?

Yes ... since it's a function prototype.

However, if drivers/base simply discards the return, it's a trap we
shouldn't be setting.

James