netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/6] i2c: Make remove callback return void

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Date:   Wed, 6 Jul 2022 12:13:15 +0300
From:   Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] i2c: Make remove callback return void

On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 04:03:12PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> From: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@...ine-koenig.org>
> 
> The value returned by an i2c 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>
> ---

Assuming you remove the spurious kasan change:

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>