[PATCH] pnp: mpu401: adjust pnp_register_driver signature
This series of patches removes the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices claimed. Returning the count is unreliable because devices may be hot-plugged in the future. (Many devices don't support hot-plug, of course, but PNP in general does.) This changes the convention to "zero for success, or a negative error value," which matches pci_register_driver(), acpi_bus_register_driver(), and platform_driver_register(). If drivers need to know the number of devices, they can count calls to their .probe() methods. This patch: Remove the assumption that pnp_register_driver() returns the number of devices claimed. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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