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On 06/07/2021 10:50, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The driver core ignores the return value of this callback because there
> is only little it can do when a device disappears.
> 
> This is the final bit of a long lasting cleanup quest where several
> buses were converted to also return void from their remove callback.
> Additionally some resource leaks were fixed that were caused by drivers
> returning an error code in the expectation that the driver won't go
> away.
> 
> With struct bus_type::remove returning void it's prevented that newly
> implemented buses return an ignored error code and so don't anticipate
> wrong expectations for driver authors.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
> ---
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>   drivers/slimbus/core.c                    | 4 +---

for slimbus changes:

Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>