linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/11] firmware: coreboot_table: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:12:34 +0800
From: Tzung-Bi Shih <tzungbi@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: kernel@...gutronix.de, Brian Norris <briannorris@...omium.org>,
	Julius Werner <jwerner@...omium.org>,
	chrome-platform@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/11] firmware: coreboot_table: Convert to platform
 remove callback returning void

On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 05:26:27PM +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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
> 
> [...]

Applied, thanks!

[03/11] firmware: coreboot: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
        commit: 09aeaabebdafbcf4afd1c481beaff37ecbc6b023