[PATCH] crypto: atmel-ecc - Remove duplicated error reporting in .remove()

Herbert Xu herbert at gondor.apana.org.au
Fri Jun 10 02:14:57 PDT 2022


Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> Returning an error value in an i2c remove callback results in an error
> message being emitted by the i2c core, but otherwise it doesn't make a
> difference. The device goes away anyhow and the devm cleanups are
> called.
> 
> As atmel_ecc_remove() already emits an error message on failure and the
> additional error message by the i2c core doesn't add any useful
> information, change the return value to zero to suppress this message.
> 
> Also make the error message a bit more drastical because when the device
> is still busy on remove, it's likely that it will access freed memory
> soon.
> 
> This patch is a preparation for making i2c remove callbacks return void.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> ---
> drivers/crypto/atmel-ecc.c | 12 ++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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