ACK or NACK this patch please.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:33 AM, anish singh
<[email protected]> wrote:
> ping
>
> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 4:41 PM, anish kumar <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>> __clocksource_register_scale() currently returns int but it should
>> return void as there are no error paths in that function.
>> Making it void would help some amount of code to be removed at various
>> places.
>>
>> clocksource_register_hz/khz() return value is checked
>> in most of the places but I think it will translate to always
>> if(true) so let's remove those checks as well(patch will be sent
>> later for that).
>>
>> Is this return value for some future usecase(?), if yes then my
>> apologies.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: anish kumar <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  include/linux/clocksource.h |    6 +++---
>>  kernel/time/clocksource.c   |    7 +------
>>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/clocksource.h b/include/linux/clocksource.h
>> index 27cfda4..2b074cc 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/clocksource.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/clocksource.h
>> @@ -294,17 +294,17 @@ clocks_calc_mult_shift(u32 *mult, u32 *shift, u32
>> from, u32 to, u32 minsec);
>>   * Don't call __clocksource_register_scale directly, use
>>   * clocksource_register_hz/khz
>>   */
>> -extern int
>> +extern void
>>  __clocksource_register_scale(struct clocksource *cs, u32 scale, u32
>> freq);
>>  extern void
>>  __clocksource_updatefreq_scale(struct clocksource *cs, u32 scale, u32
>> freq);
>>
>> -static inline int clocksource_register_hz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>> hz)
>> +static inline void clocksource_register_hz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>> hz)
>>  {
>>         return __clocksource_register_scale(cs, 1, hz);
>>  }
>>
>> -static inline int clocksource_register_khz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>> khz)
>> +static inline void clocksource_register_khz(struct clocksource *cs, u32
>> khz)
>>  {
>>         return __clocksource_register_scale(cs, 1000, khz);
>>  }
>> diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
>> index c958338..1915550 100644
>> --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
>> +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
>> @@ -703,14 +703,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__clocksource_updatefreq_scale);
>>   * @scale:     Scale factor multiplied against freq to get clocksource hz
>>   * @freq:      clocksource frequency (cycles per second) divided by scale
>>   *
>> - * Returns -EBUSY if registration fails, zero otherwise.
>> - *
>>   * This *SHOULD NOT* be called directly! Please use the
>>   * clocksource_register_hz() or clocksource_register_khz helper
>> functions.
>>   */
>> -int __clocksource_register_scale(struct clocksource *cs, u32 scale, u32
>> freq)
>> +void __clocksource_register_scale(struct clocksource *cs, u32 scale,
>> u32 freq)
>>  {
>> -
>>         /* Initialize mult/shift and max_idle_ns */
>>         __clocksource_updatefreq_scale(cs, scale, freq);
>>
>> @@ -720,11 +717,9 @@ int __clocksource_register_scale(struct clocksource
>> *cs, u32 scale, u32 freq)
>>         clocksource_enqueue_watchdog(cs);
>>         clocksource_select();
>>         mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex);
>> -       return 0;
>>  }
>>  EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__clocksource_register_scale);
>>
>> -
>>  /**
>>   * clocksource_register - Used to install new clocksources
>>   * @cs:                clocksource to be registered
>> --
>> 1.7.1
>>
>>
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