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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-30 15:59:57 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-08-05 10:35:49 -0700
commitf368ed6088ae9c1fbe1c897bb5f215ce5e63fa1e (patch)
treea9ed27128f04f21ed0f205ec94a1ad0dbf746bb4 /include/linux/miscdevice.h
parent379e4f756b915bcc35958365e5d1326b3b54efce (diff)
char: make misc_deregister a void function
With well over 200+ users of this api, there are a mere 12 users that actually checked 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 <agk@redhat.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@intel.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@intel.com> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Cc: Christine Caulfield <ccaulfie@redhat.com> Cc: David Teigland <teigland@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Acked-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Acked-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/miscdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/miscdevice.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 819077c32690..81f6e427ba6b 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ struct miscdevice {
};
extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice *misc);
-extern int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc);
+extern void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc);
#define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(minor) \
MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(MISC_MAJOR) \