ts to unregister the device that is not registered. This is the driver's bug. Most of the drivers don't check the return value of misc_deregister(). (It is not bad thing because most of kernel *_unregister() API always succeed and do not return value) So it is better to indicate the error by WARN_ON() in misc_deregister(). Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Martin Schwidefsky Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds +:1x