From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>

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>
---

 sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c |   16 ++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff -puN sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c~pnp-mpu401-adjust-pnp_register_driver-signature sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c
--- devel/sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c~pnp-mpu401-adjust-pnp_register_driver-signature	2006-03-07 14:28:46.000000000 -0800
+++ devel-akpm/sound/drivers/mpu401/mpu401.c	2006-03-07 14:29:16.000000000 -0800
@@ -59,7 +59,8 @@ module_param_array(irq, int, NULL, 0444)
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(irq, "IRQ # for MPU-401 device.");
 
 static struct platform_device *platform_devices[SNDRV_CARDS];
-static int pnp_registered = 0;
+static int pnp_registered;
+static unsigned int snd_mpu401_devices;
 
 static int snd_mpu401_create(int dev, struct snd_card **rcard)
 {
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ static int __devinit snd_mpu401_pnp_prob
 		}
 		snd_card_set_dev(card, &pnp_dev->dev);
 		pnp_set_drvdata(pnp_dev, card);
+		snd_mpu401_devices++;
 		++dev;
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -234,12 +236,11 @@ static void __init_or_module snd_mpu401_
 
 static int __init alsa_card_mpu401_init(void)
 {
-	int i, err, devices;
+	int i, err;
 
 	if ((err = platform_driver_register(&snd_mpu401_driver)) < 0)
 		return err;
 
-	devices = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < SNDRV_CARDS; i++) {
 		struct platform_device *device;
 		if (! enable[i])
@@ -255,14 +256,13 @@ static int __init alsa_card_mpu401_init(
 			goto errout;
 		}
 		platform_devices[i] = device;
-		devices++;
+		snd_mpu401_devices++;
 	}
-	if ((err = pnp_register_driver(&snd_mpu401_pnp_driver)) >= 0) {
+	err = pnp_register_driver(&snd_mpu401_pnp_driver);
+	if (!err)
 		pnp_registered = 1;
-		devices += err;
-	}
 
-	if (!devices) {
+	if (!snd_mpu401_devices) {
 #ifdef MODULE
 		printk(KERN_ERR "MPU-401 device not found or device busy\n");
 #endif
_