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Date:   Tue, 25 Jan 2022 13:43:31 +0100
From:   Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     linux-spi@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] spi: make remove callback a void function

It was <2022-01-23 nie 18:52>, when Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> The value returned by an spi driver's remove function is mostly ignored.
> (Only an error message is printed if the value is non-zero that the
> error is ignored.)
>
> So change the prototype of the remove function to return no value. This
> way driver authors are not tempted to assume that passing an error to
> the upper layer is a good idea. All drivers are adapted accordingly.
> There is no intended change of behaviour, all callbacks were prepared to
> return 0 before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> ---

[...]


>  drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c             |  4 +---

[...]

>  191 files changed, 197 insertions(+), 545 deletions(-)
>

Acked-by: Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>


[...]

> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
> index e7a9f9863258..bf70481bb1ca 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/asix/ax88796c_main.c
> @@ -1102,7 +1102,7 @@ static int ax88796c_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int ax88796c_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
> +static void ax88796c_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
>  {
>  	struct ax88796c_device *ax_local = dev_get_drvdata(&spi->dev);
>  	struct net_device *ndev = ax_local->ndev;
> @@ -1112,8 +1112,6 @@ static int ax88796c_remove(struct spi_device *spi)
>  	netif_info(ax_local, probe, ndev, "removing network device %s %s\n",
>  		   dev_driver_string(&spi->dev),
>  		   dev_name(&spi->dev));
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_OF

[...]


-- 
Łukasz Stelmach
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics

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