Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] bus: Make remove callback return void - Uwe Kleine-König

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] bus: Make remove callback return void
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 20:32:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210706183215.tcd7i4pwz2gxtxtb@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210706154803.1631813-5-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

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Hello,

v1 was acked by some more after I stopped looking in my mailbox while
preparing v2:

On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:48:03PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The driver core ignores the return value of this callback because there
> is only little it can do when a device disappears.
> 
> This is the final bit of a long lasting cleanup quest where several
> buses were converted to also return void from their remove callback.
> Additionally some resource leaks were fixed that were caused by drivers
> returning an error code in the expectation that the driver won't go
> away.
> 
> With struct bus_type::remove returning void it's prevented that newly
> implemented buses return an ignored error code and so don't anticipate
> wrong expectations for driver authors.
> 
> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk> (For ARM, Amba and related parts)
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> (for drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c)
> Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> (for drivers/media)
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> (For drivers/platform)
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> (For Xen)
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> (For drivers/mfd)
> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org> (For drivers/mcb)
> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> (For drivers/slimbus)
> Acked-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> (For drivers/vfio)
> Acked-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> (For ulpi and typec)
> Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez <siglesias@igalia.com> (For ipack)
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> (For fpga)
> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> (For ps3)

Acked-by: Yehezkel Bernat <YehezkelShB@gmail.com> (For thunderbolt)
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> (For intel_th)
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> (For pcmcia)

> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

Best regards
Uwe

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