From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:50:57 -0800

> On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:21:11 -0800
> Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > > net/core/dev.c:unregister_netdev() function is a wrapper around
> > > net/core/dev.c:unregister_netdevice().  The unregister_netdevice() 
> > > function
> > > returns a return code while unregister_netdev() currently does not.  For
> > > completeness, we should pass the return code from unregister_netdevice() 
> > > all the
> > > way to the caller.  unregister_netdev() should not swallow the return 
> > > code.
> > > 
> > 
> > Certainly there's some truth in that ;)
> > 
> > Is there some reason why you want to test the unregister_netdev() return
> > value?
> The only return value is -ENODEV, so I would vote for both just being void

Me too.

FWIW, I think bug reports like this are a lot of back-and-forth waste
of time.  If it's important enough to someone, let them write a
god-damn patch for something so amazingly trivial.  With the bugzill
entry, you have to respond to it, change it's diapers, etc.
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