[PATCH 0/6] bus: fsl-mc: Make remove function return void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Apr 13 16:00:04 AEST 2023


Hello Leo,

On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 09:30:05PM +0000, Leo Li wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > many bus remove functions return an integer which is a historic
> > > misdesign that makes driver authors assume that there is some kind of
> > > error handling in the upper layers. This is wrong however and
> > > returning and error code only yields an error message.
> > >
> > > This series improves the fsl-mc bus by changing the remove callback to
> > > return no value instead. As a preparation all drivers are changed to
> > > return zero before so that they don't trigger the error message.
> > 
> > Who is supposed to pick up this patch series (or point out a good reason for
> > not taking it)?
> 
> Previously Greg KH picked up MC bus patches.
> 
> If no one is picking up them this time, I probably can take it through
> the fsl soc tree.

I guess Greg won't pick up this series as he didn't get a copy of it :-)

Browsing through the history of drivers/bus/fsl-mc there is no
consistent maintainer to see. So if you can take it, that's very
appreciated.

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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