linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: kirkwood: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 18:32:41 +0200
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, 
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>
Cc: Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: kirkwood: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Hello,

On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 10:33:06PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 12:55:17PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:40:13PM +0800, 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.
> > > 
> > > Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> > 
> > Can you pick this up?
> 
> This patch isn't in next yet. Is this still on someone's radar for
> application? Would be great if this patch made it into the mainline
> during the upcomming merge window.

It didn't made it into the merge window leading to 6.9-rc1. What are
the chances to get it into v6.10-rc1?

I just checked, the patch was submitted when Linus's tree was just after
v6.5-rc1. So it already missed four merge windows without any maintainer
feedback :-\

Best regards
Uwe

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