[PATCH 6/6] i2c: Make remove callback return void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Jul 6 19:31:30 AEST 2022


On Wed, Jul 06, 2022 at 12:13:15PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 04:03:12PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe at kleine-koenig.org>
> > 
> > The value returned by an i2c driver's remove function is mostly ignored.
> > (Only an error message is printed if the value is non-zero that the
> > error is ignored.)
> > 
> > So change the prototype of the remove function to return no value. This
> > way driver authors are not tempted to assume that passing an error to
> > the upper layer is a good idea. All drivers are adapted accordingly.
> > There is no intended change of behaviour, all callbacks were prepared to
> > return 0 before.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> > ---
> 
> Assuming you remove the spurious kasan change:

It's already gone in my tree, see
https://git.pengutronix.de/cgit/ukl/linux/commit/?h=i2c-remove-void

> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv at gmail.com>

Thanks
Uwe

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