linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] mfd: twl4030: Make twl4030_exit

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Date:   Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:24:50 +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 2/2] mfd: twl4030: Make twl4030_exit_irq() return void

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

> If twl4030_exit_irq() returns an error, the effect is that the caller
> (twl_remove()) forwards the error to the i2c core without unregistering
> its dummy slave devices. This only makes the i2c core emit another
> error message and then it still removes the device.
> 
> In this situation it doesn't make sense to abort the remove cleanup and not
> unregister the slave devices. So do that. Then return value is actually
> unused and twl4030_exit_irq() can better be changed to return no value at
> all.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> ---
>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.c    | 6 +-----
>  drivers/mfd/twl-core.h    | 2 +-
>  drivers/mfd/twl4030-irq.c | 7 ++-----
>  3 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

Applied, thanks.

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