[NET]: unregister_netdevice as void
There was no real useful information from the unregister_netdevice() return
code, the only error occurred in a situation that was a driver bug. So
change it to a void function.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 455d589..1e94a1b 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -3247,7 +3247,7 @@
* unregister_netdev() instead of this.
*/
-int unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
+void unregister_netdevice(struct net_device *dev)
{
struct net_device *d, **dp;
@@ -3258,7 +3258,9 @@
if (dev->reg_state == NETREG_UNINITIALIZED) {
printk(KERN_DEBUG "unregister_netdevice: device %s/%p never "
"was registered\n", dev->name, dev);
- return -ENODEV;
+
+ WARN_ON(1);
+ return;
}
BUG_ON(dev->reg_state != NETREG_REGISTERED);
@@ -3280,11 +3282,7 @@
break;
}
}
- if (!d) {
- printk(KERN_ERR "unregister net_device: '%s' not found\n",
- dev->name);
- return -ENODEV;
- }
+ BUG_ON(!d);
dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERING;
@@ -3316,7 +3314,6 @@
synchronize_net();
dev_put(dev);
- return 0;
}
/**