[PATCH 3/4] amba: Make the remove callback return void

Arnd Bergmann arnd at kernel.org
Tue Nov 24 06:48:05 EST 2020


On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 11:32 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Most amba drivers return 0 in their remove callback. Together with the
> driver core ignoring the return value anyhow, it doesn't make sense to
> return a value here.
>
> So add a warning to the only driver that could return an error code and
> change the remove prototype to return void, which makes it explicit that
> returning an error value doesn't work as expected. This simplifies changing
> the core remove callback to return void, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>

Makes sense, I checked that the vfio driver cannot actually return an error
either, the 'if (vdev)' check seems to be done out of unnecessary caution,
as the probe would never have succeeded if that was NULL.

         Arnd



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