Re: [PATCH] clocksource: fix some comments typo in clocksource.c

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Wed Jan 22 2014 - 16:05:13 EST


On Thu, 2 Jan 2014, Yijing Wang wrote:

> Fix some trivial comments typo in kernel/time/clocksource.c

That's not a typo. Thats a left over. The function simply cannot fail
anymore. So the subject of that patch should be something like:

clocksource: Remove outdated comments

And the changelog should explain, that the functions always return 0,
so the comment is just pointless. A nice follow up on that would be to
actually make the function void instead of returning a pointless int,
but that requires to check all call sites.

Thanks,

tglx

> Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang <wangyijing@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/time/clocksource.c | 3 ---
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> index ba3e502..9951575 100644
> --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
> @@ -779,8 +779,6 @@ 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.
> */
> @@ -805,7 +803,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__clocksource_register_scale);
> * clocksource_register - Used to install new clocksources
> * @cs: clocksource to be registered
> *
> - * Returns -EBUSY if registration fails, zero otherwise.
> */
> int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *cs)
> {
> --
> 1.7.1
>
>
>
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