linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] pwm: ab8500: Don't check the return code of pwmchip

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Date:   Wed, 8 Sep 2021 11:17:35 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     zhaoxiao <long870912@...il.com>
Cc:     thierry.reding@...il.com, lee.jones@...aro.org,
        linux-pwm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pwm: ab8500: Don't check the return code of
 pwmchip_remove()

Hello zhaoxiao,

On Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 02:02:00PM +0800, zhaoxiao wrote:
> pwmchip_remove() returns always 0. Don't use the value to make it
> possible to eventually change the function to return void. Also the
> driver core ignores the return value of ab8500_pwm_remove()
> and considers the device removed anyhow. So returning early results
> in a resource leak.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhaoxiao <long870912@...il.com>

Can you please base your patches on top of linux-next? This patch is
invalid in the presence of 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=14ac9e17f9bd4bd0dfe18e384a3c2ca8dfbffcc8

So this is waste of your (and my) time :-\

Best regards
Uwe

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