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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:07:14 +0200

> Could we just make it so dev->init is not allowed to fail? Then it
> can be a void function and the nasty unwind code can go?

Someone (not me :-) need to do an audit to find all current
users of this function and determine if they all can live
without returning errors.

If so, sure let's make the change and simplify things.