linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/58] mmc: dw_mmc: exynos: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2023 10:11:15 +0200
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>
Cc:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/58] mmc: dw_mmc: exynos: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void

On 13/07/2023 10:07, Yangtao Li 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.
> 
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.

You even copied Uwe's commit msg... Aren't you duplicate his work or is
it being coordinated?

Best regards,
Krzysztof