[PATCH 0/5] clocksource: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Uwe Kleine-König
u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Apr 6 07:07:12 PDT 2023
Hello Daniel,
On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 03:54:11PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> On 13/03/2023 08:54, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/clk
> > 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.
> >
> > Most clocksource drivers are not supposed to be removed. Two drivers are
> > adapted here to actually prevent removal. One driver is fixed not to
> > return an error code in .remove() and then the two remaining drivers
> > with a remove callback are trivially converted to .remove_new().
> >
>
> Applied and fixed up patch #2
Great. Thank you.
Best regards
Uwe
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