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

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 04:57:00PM -0500, Li Yang wrote:
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:44 AM Uwe Kleine-König
> <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:00:04AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 09:30:05PM +0000, Leo Li wrote:
> > > > > 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)?
> > > >
> > > > Previously Greg KH picked up MC bus patches.
> > > >
> > > > If no one is picking up them this time, I probably can take it through
> > > > the fsl soc tree.
> > >
> > > I guess Greg won't pick up this series as he didn't get a copy of it :-)
> > >
> > > Browsing through the history of drivers/bus/fsl-mc there is no
> > > consistent maintainer to see. So if you can take it, that's very
> > > appreciated.
> >
> > My mail was meant encouraging, maybe it was too subtile? I'll try again:
> >
> > Yes, please apply, that would be wonderful!
> 
> Sorry for missing your previous email.  I will do that.  Thanks.

Either you didn't apply this patch set yet, or your tree isn't in next.
Both variants would be great to be fixed.

I have another change pending for drivers/bus/fsl-mc/fsl-mc-bus.c, would
be great to see these base patches in next first.

Best regards
Uwe

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