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

Li Yang leoyang.li at nxp.com
Tue May 9 07:57:00 AEST 2023


On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:44 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Leo,
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:00:04AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > 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.
>
> My mail was meant encouraging, maybe it was too subtile? I'll try again:
>
> Yes, please apply, that would be wonderful!

Sorry for missing your previous email.  I will do that.  Thanks.

Regards,
Leo


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