From: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
To: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Cc: "Rusty Russell" <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
"Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Gustavo A . R . Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>,
"Nicholas Krause" <xerofoify@gmail.com>,
"Duan Jiong" <duanj.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>,
"Sachin Kamat" <sachin.kamat@linaro.org>,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] err.h: remove deprecated PTR_RET for good
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:42:56 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.2003222240500.19500@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200322165702.6712-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Initially, commit fa9ee9c4b988 ("include/linux/err.h: add a function to
> cast error-pointers to a return value") from Uwe Kleine-König introduced
> PTR_RET in 03/2011. Then, in 07/2013, commit 6e8b8726ad50 ("PTR_RET is
> now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO") from Rusty Russell renamed PTR_RET to
> PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO, and left PTR_RET as deprecated-marked alias.
>
> After six years since the renaming and various repeated cleanups in the
> meantime, it is time to finally remove the deprecated PTR_RET for good.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
> ---
> Rusty, if you are still around, Acked-by is appreciated.
> Uwe, Acked-by is appreciated.
> Kudos to Gustavo, Nicholas, Duan & Sachin for previous cleanups.
>
> applies cleanly on current master and on next-20200320
> Jiri, please pick this trival patch for the next merge window. Thanks.
I am queuing it right away; it's been marked deprecated back in 2013, and
it doesn't have any in-tree users anyway.
Thanks,
--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-22 21:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-22 16:57 [PATCH] err.h: remove deprecated PTR_RET for good Lukas Bulwahn
2020-03-22 21:42 ` Jiri Kosina [this message]
2020-03-22 22:04 ` Uwe Kleine-König
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