linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 7/8] intel_th: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 22:16:41 +0100
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] intel_th: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Hello Alexander,

On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 09:41:54AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 09:28:26PM +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().
> > 
> > Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> > callback to the void returning variant.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> 
> I didn't get any feedback to this patch and it didn't make it into next
> up to now.
> 
> Is this still on someone's radar?

Is there a chance to get this patch into v6.9-rc1? Are you the right one
to talk to about this patch? (According to MAINTAINERS you are.)

The patch was sent during the 6.7 merge window and now already missed
the 6.8 one :-\

Best regards
Uwe

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Pengutronix e.K.                           | Uwe Kleine-König            |
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