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@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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. include/linux/err.h | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/err.h b/include/linux/err.h index 87be24350e91..a139c64aef2a 100644 --- a/include/linux/err.h +++ b/include/linux/err.h @@ -62,9 +62,6 @@ static inline int __must_check PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(__force const void *ptr) return 0; } -/* Deprecated */ -#define PTR_RET(p) PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO(p) - #endif #endif /* _LINUX_ERR_H */ -- 2.17.1