On Tuesday 06 July 2021 11:50:37 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. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Hello, > > this patch depends on "PCI: endpoint: Make struct pci_epf_driver::remove > return void" that is not yet applied, see > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223090757.57604-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx. > > I tested it using allmodconfig on amd64 and arm, but I wouldn't be > surprised if I still missed to convert a driver. So it would be great to > get this into next early after the merge window closes. > > I send this mail to all people that get_maintainer.pl emits for this > patch. I wonder how many recipents will refuse this mail because of the > long Cc: list :-) > > Best regards > Uwe
