From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from atlrel8.hp.com (atlrel8.hp.com [156.153.255.206]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "atlrel8.hp.com", Issuer "RSA Data Security, Inc." (verified OK)) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD29679FF for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:38:41 +1100 (EST) From: Bjorn Helgaas To: Paul Mackerras , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: [PATCH] macintosh: tidy-up driver_register() return values Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:18:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <200603021618.51590.bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices bound to the driver. In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative error value. All callers of macio_register_driver() either ignore the return value or return it as the return value of a module_init() function. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas Index: work-mm4/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c =================================================================== --- work-mm4.orig/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c 2006-03-01 15:37:15.000000000 -0700 +++ work-mm4/drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c 2006-03-02 12:57:05.000000000 -0700 @@ -550,15 +550,12 @@ */ int macio_register_driver(struct macio_driver *drv) { - int count = 0; - /* initialize common driver fields */ drv->driver.name = drv->name; drv->driver.bus = &macio_bus_type; /* register with core */ - count = driver_register(&drv->driver); - return count ? count : 1; + return driver_register(&drv->driver); } /**