[PATCH] bus: Make remove callback return void

Maximilian Luz luzmaximilian at gmail.com
Tue Jul 6 21:42:31 AEST 2021


On 7/6/21 11:50 AM, 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 at pengutronix.de>

>   drivers/platform/surface/aggregator/bus.c | 4 +---

Acked-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian at gmail.com>


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