linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] clk: imx: imx8mp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Wed,  1 May 2024 14:54:30 +0300
From: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@...aro.org>
To: Abel Vesa <abelvesa@...nel.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@...nel.org>,
	Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@...gutronix.de>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Shengjiu Wang <shengjiu.wang@....com>,
	Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Peng Fan <peng.fan@....com>,
	Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
	Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
	Pengutronix Kernel Team <kernel@...gutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>,
	linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
	imx@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] clk: imx: imx8mp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void


On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:12:31 +0200, 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!

[1/1] clk: imx: imx8mp: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
      commit: f5072cffb35c122ec85d91ef327fa8814f04297b

Best regards,
-- 
Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@...aro.org>