linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030: Make twl6030_exit

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Date:   Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:24:21 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] mfd: twl6030: Make twl6030_exit_irq() return void

On Thu, 13 Jan 2022, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:

> This function returns 0 unconditionally, so there is no benefit in
> returning a value at all and make the caller do error checking.
> 
> Also the caller (twl_remove()) cannot do anything sensible with an error
> code. Passing it up the call stack isn't a good option because the i2c core
> ignores error codes (apart from emitting an error message).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.c    | 4 ++--
>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.h    | 2 +-
>  drivers/mfd/twl6030-irq.c | 3 +--
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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