On Sat, 10 Sep 2005, John W. Linville wrote:
>
> But, aren't these arguments for changing the functions to return void?
> If there is never any point in checking the results, then why have
> results at all?
Trying to set other power states than D0 might return interesting values.
Also, you _can_ use the value to determine whether the device supports PM
states at all.
There are tons of functions that return values. That doesn't mean that you
always have to check them.
Linus
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