2021-07-06 21:38:34

by William Breathitt Gray

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] bus: Make remove callback return void

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:48:03PM +0200, 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.
>
> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <[email protected]> (For ARM, Amba and related parts)
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <[email protected]> (for drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c)
> Acked-by: Pali Rohár <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]> (for drivers/media)
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]> (For drivers/platform)
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <[email protected]>
> Acked-By: Vinod Koul <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <[email protected]> (For Xen)
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <[email protected]> (For drivers/mfd)
> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <[email protected]> (For drivers/mcb)
> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <[email protected]> (For drivers/slimbus)
> Acked-by: Kirti Wankhede <[email protected]> (For drivers/vfio)
> Acked-by: Maximilian Luz <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <[email protected]> (For ulpi and typec)
> Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez <[email protected]> (For ipack)
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <[email protected]> (For fpga)
> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <[email protected]> (For ps3)
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
> ---

> drivers/base/isa.c | 4 +---

Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <[email protected]>


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