[PATCH v2 4/4] bus: Make remove callback return void
Thorsten Scherer
t.scherer at eckelmann.de
Thu Jul 8 07:51:54 AEST 2021
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.
[...]
> drivers/siox/siox-core.c | 4 +---
(For drivers/siox)
Acked-by: Thorsten Scherer <t.scherer at eckelmann.de>
Best regards
Thorsten
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