[PATCH] bus: Make remove callback return void

Yehezkel Bernat yehezkelshb at gmail.com
Wed Jul 7 01:06:47 AEST 2021


On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 12:50 PM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> 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/thunderbolt/domain.c              | 4 +---

For Thunderbolt:

Acked-by: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB at gmail.com>


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