On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 08:05 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Mar 20, 2023 at 09:06:04AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > this series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/char/tpm to use the > > .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove() callback > > .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because the driver core > > doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The only effect of a > > non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver core emits a warning. The > > device is removed anyhow and an early return from .remove() usually yields a > > resource leak. > > > > The drivers converted here returned zero in their remove callback, to the > > transformation was easy. > > who is responsible to pick up this patch set (or express their concerns > when not applying it)? > > There is (for now) no coordination necessary, the final conversion of > platform_driver's remove callback is still far away. So applying it via > it's usual repo would be great. Please check https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd.git/ If you see anything abnormal, please report, and I will fix before sending the pull request to Linus. BR, Jarkko
