On Sun, 23 Jan 2022 18:51:56 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > this series goal is to change the spi remove callback's return value to void. > After numerous patches nearly all drivers already return 0 unconditionally. > The four first patches in this series convert the remaining three drivers to > return 0, the final patch changes the remove prototype and converts all > implementers. > > The driver core doesn't support error handling on remove, the spi core issues > only a very generic warning when a remove callback returns an error. If there > is really the need for a function call that can fail, the driver can issue a > more helpful error message. I didn't find a single driver where returning > an error code and error handling in the spi core would have been helpful. > > [...] Applied to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi.git for-next Thanks! [1/5] staging: fbtft: Fix error path in fbtft_driver_module_init() commit: 7d8e4c98d13b6b54655140d6b6a6a17fbc9b32f1 [2/5] staging: fbtft: Deduplicate driver registration macros commit: c222ea5d2f3361458672d1f52c78970aa021cb61 [3/5] tpm: st33zp24: Make st33zp24_remove() a void function commit: 316f569df766df9a49c36c052ec6afaf19cb6933 [4/5] platform/chrome: cros_ec: Make cros_ec_unregister() return void commit: afb0a80e63d67e957b5d0eb4ade301aff6e13c8c [5/5] spi: make remove callback a void function commit: 2cbfa2128662c6b841f68cd2fe54df199457e38a All being well this means that it will be integrated into the linux-next tree (usually sometime in the next 24 hours) and sent to Linus during the next merge window (or sooner if it is a bug fix), however if problems are discovered then the patch may be dropped or reverted. You may get further e-mails resulting from automated or manual testing and review of the tree, please engage with people reporting problems and send followup patches addressing any issues that are reported if needed. If any updates are required or you are submitting further changes they should be sent as incremental updates against current git, existing patches will not be replaced. Please add any relevant lists and maintainers to the CCs when replying to this mail. Thanks, Mark
