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Re: [PATCH net-next] wifi: ti/wlcore: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Hello,

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 08:23:18PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
> > many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
> > returning an error code.  However the value returned is (mostly) ignored
> > and this typically results in resource leaks. To improve here there is a
> > quest to make the remove callback return void. In the first step of this
> > quest all drivers are converted to .remove_new() which already returns
> > void.
> >
> > wlcore_remove() returned zero unconditionally. With that converted to
> > return void instead, the wl12xx and wl18xx driver can be converted to
> > .remove_new trivially.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl12xx/main.c   | 6 +++---
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wl18xx/main.c   | 2 +-
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/main.c   | 6 ++----
> >  drivers/net/wireless/ti/wlcore/wlcore.h | 2 +-
> >  4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> wireless patches go to wireless-next, not net-next. But no need to
> resend because of this.

So for the next patch to drivers/net/wireless: I should write "[PATCH
wireless-next]" in the Subject? Do the other special rules for net-next
apply to wireless-next, too? (E.g. that I must not send patches for
-next during the merge window and the rules about comments.)

Best regards
Uwe

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