[PATCH] phy: xilinx: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Vinod Koul vkoul at kernel.org
Fri Apr 5 10:09:09 PDT 2024


On Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:51:13 +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes
> many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by
> returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks.
> 
> To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return
> void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to
> .remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[1/1] phy: xilinx: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
      commit: 7dcb8668aedc5603cba1f2625c6051beff03797d

Best regards,
-- 
~Vinod





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