linux-kernel - Re: (subset) [PATCH 24/30] clk: samsung: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-Id: <167863875711.381514.15169199384920504474.b4-ty@linaro.org>
Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:33:34 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Chanwoo Choi <cw00.choi@...sung.com>,
        Tomasz Figa <tomasz.figa@...il.com>,
        Sylwester Nawrocki <s.nawrocki@...sung.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: (subset) [PATCH 24/30] clk: samsung: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:15:06 +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 (mostly) ignored
> 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.
> 
> [...]


You mentioned some dependency of v6.3-rc1, so I assume there is no dependency.
There is never a need to mention RC1 dependencies. Maintainer's tree must be
based on it.

Applied, thanks!

[24/30] clk: samsung: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
        https://git.kernel.org/krzk/linux/c/e853fb1803f60da69db82d41d92e30539a859227

Best regards,
-- 
Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>