[PATCH 0/6] bus: fsl-mc: Make remove function return void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Wed Apr 12 10:10:56 PDT 2023


Hello,

On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> many bus remove functions return an integer which is a historic
> misdesign that makes driver authors assume that there is some kind of
> error handling in the upper layers. This is wrong however and returning
> and error code only yields an error message.
> 
> This series improves the fsl-mc bus by changing the remove callback to
> return no value instead. As a preparation all drivers are changed to
> return zero before so that they don't trigger the error message.

Who is supposed to pick up this patch series (or point out a good reason
for not taking it)?

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |
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