On Thu, Jul 30 2015 at 6:59pm -0400, Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that > actually cheked the return value of this function. And all of them > really didn't do anything with that information as the system or module > was shutting down no matter what. > > So stop pretending like it matters, and just return void from > misc_deregister(). If something goes wrong in the call, you will get a > WARNING splat in the syslog so you know how to fix up your driver. > Other than that, there's nothing that can go wrong. > > Cc: Alasdair Kergon <[email protected]> > Cc: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]> > Cc: Neil Brown <[email protected]> > Cc: Alessandro Zummo <[email protected]> > Cc: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]> > Cc: Oleg Drokin <[email protected]> > Cc: Andreas Dilger <[email protected]> > Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email protected]> > Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <[email protected]> > Cc: Christine Caulfield <[email protected]> > Cc: David Teigland <[email protected]> > Cc: Mark Fasheh <[email protected]> > Cc: Joel Becker <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> > > --- > > If the different subsystem maintainers want to give me an ack for this, > I'd appreciate it. I'd like to just take the single patch in through > the char-misc tree in one piece. For DM: Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
