[PATCH v4 0/5] bus: Make remove callback return void

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Wed Jul 21 20:09:41 AEST 2021


On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:35:17PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is v4 of the final patch set for my effort to make struct
> bus_type::remove return void.
> 
> The first four patches contain cleanups that make some of these
> callbacks (more obviously) always return 0. They are acked by the
> respective maintainers. Bjorn Helgaas explicitly asked to include the
> pci patch (#1) into this series, so Greg taking this is fine. I assume
> the s390 people are fine with Greg taking patches #2 to #4, too, they
> didn't explicitly said so though.
> 
> The last patch actually changes the prototype and so touches quite some
> drivers and has the potential to conflict with future developments, so I
> consider it beneficial to put these patches into next soon. I expect
> that it will be Greg who takes the complete series, he already confirmed
> via irc (for v2) to look into this series.
> 
> The only change compared to v3 is in the fourth patch where I modified a
> few more drivers to fix build failures. Some of them were found by build
> bots (thanks!), some of them I found myself using a regular expression
> search. The newly modified files are:
> 
>  arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c
>  drivers/nubus/bus.c
>  drivers/sh/superhyway/superhyway.c
>  drivers/vlynq/vlynq.c
>  drivers/zorro/zorro-driver.c
>  sound/ac97/bus.c
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe

Now queued up.  I can go make a git tag that people can pull from after
0-day is finished testing this to verify all is good, if others need it.

thanks,

greg k-h


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