Hello Sasha, On 6/16/24 04:18, Sasha Levin wrote:
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled driver core: platform: Emit a warning if a remove callback returned non-zero to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: driver-core-platform-emit-a-warning-if-a-remove-call.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 2f1ac60bc9668567f021c314312563951039f77b Author: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun Feb 7 22:15:37 2021 +0100 driver core: platform: Emit a warning if a remove callback returned non-zero[ Upstream commit e5e1c209788138f33ca6558bf9f572f6904f486d ] The driver core ignores the return value of a bus' remove callback. Howevera driver returning an error code is a hint that there is a problem, probably a driver author who expects that returning e.g. -EBUSY has any effect.The right thing to do would be to make struct platform_driver::remove()return void. With the immense number of platform drivers this is however a big quest and I hope to prevent at least a few new drivers that return an error code here.Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207211537.19992-1-uwe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: 55c421b36448 ("mmc: davinci: Don't strip remove function when driver is builtin") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
That looks wrong. If this patch should be included in stable, it shouldn't be because it's a dependency. 55c421b36448 works without this patch for sure.
Either backport e5e1c2097881 because you think that warning should be in 5.10.x, or don't backport it.
Best regards Uwe
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