regulator: core: remove some dead code

Originally queue_delayed_work() used to negative error codes or 0 and 1 on success depending if the work was queued or not. It caused a lot of bugs where people treated all non-zero returns as failures so we changed it to return bool instead in d4283e937861 ('workqueue: make queueing functions return bool'). Now it never returns failure.

Checking for negative values causes a static checker warning since it is impossible based on the bool type.

index 3308c6b..744c988 100644
@@ -2368,7 +2368,6 @@ static void regulator_disable_work(struct work_struct *work)
 int regulator_disable_deferred(struct regulator *regulator, int ms)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev = regulator->rdev;
-	int ret;
 
 	if (regulator->always_on)
 		return 0;

@@ -2380,13 +2379,9 @@ int regulator_disable_deferred(struct regulator *regulator, int ms)
 	rdev->deferred_disables++;
 	mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
 
-	ret = queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq,
-				 &rdev->disable_work,
-				 msecs_to_jiffies(ms));
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
-	else
-		return 0;
+	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &rdev->disable_work,
+			   msecs_to_jiffies(ms));
+	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_disable_deferred);
 

The patch

regulator: core: remove some dead code

has been applied to the regulator tree at

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator.git

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Thanks,
Mark

From: Dan Carpenter <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 13:03:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] regulator: core: remove some dead code

Originally queue_delayed_work() used to negative error codes or 0 and 1 on success depending if the work was queued or not. It caused a lot of bugs where people treated all non-zero returns as failures so we changed it to return bool instead in d4283e937861 ('workqueue: make queueing functions return bool'). Now it never returns failure.

Checking for negative values causes a static checker warning since it is impossible based on the bool type.

---
 drivers/regulator/core.c | 11 +++--------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

index 0853a80bf7fe..856fec528b8d 100644
@@ -2368,7 +2368,6 @@ static void regulator_disable_work(struct work_struct *work)
 int regulator_disable_deferred(struct regulator *regulator, int ms)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev = regulator->rdev;
-	int ret;
 
 	if (regulator->always_on)
 		return 0;

@@ -2380,13 +2379,9 @@ int regulator_disable_deferred(struct regulator *regulator, int ms)
 	rdev->deferred_disables++;
 	mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
 
-	ret = queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq,
-				 &rdev->disable_work,
-				 msecs_to_jiffies(ms));
-	if (ret < 0)
-		return ret;
-	else
-		return 0;
+	queue_delayed_work(system_power_efficient_wq, &rdev->disable_work,
+			   msecs_to_jiffies(ms));
+	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_disable_deferred);
 

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