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Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2023 11:02:30 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>,
        Jaehoon Chung <jh80.chung@...sung.com>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...sung.com>,
        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 Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:11:15AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> 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?

We communicated and I politely asked to not interfer. This series is
just what Yangtao had still pending. That's fine for me.

Thanks for noticing,
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
Industrial Linux Solutions                 | https://www.pengutronix.de/ |

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