[PATCH 00/12] ata: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Damien Le Moal]

On 7/31/23 18:16, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/ata 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.
> 
> By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
> reasonably assume any more that there is some kind of cleanup later.
> 
> All drivers touched here returned zero unconditionally in their remove
> callback, so they could all be converted trivially to .remove_new().
> 
> Once all drivers are converted to .remove_new(), .remove() will be changed to
> match today's .remove_new(). Then the drivers here will be converted back
> trivially using s/remove_new/remove/. Given the amount of platform drivers this
> is still a bit in the future, though.

Applied to for-6.6 with minor tweaks to the patch titles prefix.
Thanks !

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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research