Hello,

On Tue, Feb 23, 2021 at 10:07:57AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The driver core ignores the return value of pci_epf_device_remove()
> (because there is only little it can do when a device disappears) and
> there are no pci_epf_drivers with a remove callback.
> 
> So make it impossible for future drivers to return an unused error code
> by changing the remove prototype to return void.
> 
> The real motivation for this change is the quest to make struct
> bus_type::remove return void, too.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

ping! I didn't hear anything on this patch. Is it still one someone's
list of patches to review?

Best regards
Uwe

> ---
>  drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c | 5 ++---
>  include/linux/pci-epf.h             | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> index 7646c8660d42..a19c375f9ec9 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/endpoint/pci-epf-core.c
> @@ -389,15 +389,14 @@ static int pci_epf_device_probe(struct device *dev)
>  
>  static int pci_epf_device_remove(struct device *dev)
>  {
> -	int ret = 0;
>  	struct pci_epf *epf = to_pci_epf(dev);
>  	struct pci_epf_driver *driver = to_pci_epf_driver(dev->driver);
>  
>  	if (driver->remove)
> -		ret = driver->remove(epf);
> +		driver->remove(epf);
>  	epf->driver = NULL;
>  
> -	return ret;
> +	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static struct bus_type pci_epf_bus_type = {
> diff --git a/include/linux/pci-epf.h b/include/linux/pci-epf.h
> index 6833e2160ef1..f8a17b6b1d31 100644
> --- a/include/linux/pci-epf.h
> +++ b/include/linux/pci-epf.h
> @@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ struct pci_epf_ops {
>   */
>  struct pci_epf_driver {
>  	int	(*probe)(struct pci_epf *epf);
> -	int	(*remove)(struct pci_epf *epf);
> +	void	(*remove)(struct pci_epf *epf);
>  
>  	struct device_driver	driver;
>  	struct pci_epf_ops	*ops;
> -- 
> 2.30.0
> 
> 
> 

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