linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] bus: Make remove callback return void

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jul 2021 12:10:43 -0700
From:   Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Linux Input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] bus: Make remove callback return void

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:35:22PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The driver core ignores the return value of this callback because there
> is only little it can do when a device disappears.
> 
> This is the final bit of a long lasting cleanup quest where several
> buses were converted to also return void from their remove callback.
> Additionally some resource leaks were fixed that were caused by drivers
> returning an error code in the expectation that the driver won't go
> away.
> 
> With struct bus_type::remove returning void it's prevented that newly
> implemented buses return an ignored error code and so don't anticipate
> wrong expectations for driver authors.
> 

...

>  drivers/input/gameport/gameport.c         | 3 +--
>  drivers/input/serio/serio.c               | 3 +--

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry