On Mon, Apr 03, 2023 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > this series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/staging 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. > > By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot > reasonably assume any more that there is some kind of cleanup later. > > All drivers in staging already return zero in their remove callback, so > they can be trivially converted. > > The changes to the individual drivers are all orthogonal. If I need to > resend some patches because of some review feedback, I'd like to only > send the patches that actually needed changes, so please pick up the > remaining patches that don't need changing to reduce the amount of mail. Note, I can't take drivers/staging/media/ patches, those go through the v4l maintainer's tree. So I've taken the non-media patches from this series now. thanks, greg k-h
