[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <CADRPPNQ0QiLzzKhHon62haPJCanDoN=B4QsWCxunJTc4wXwMaA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 May 2023 16:57:00 -0500
From: Li Yang <leoyang.li@....com>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: "kvm@...r.kernel.org" <kvm@...r.kernel.org>, Gaurav Jain <gaurav.jain@....com>,
Roy Pledge <roy.pledge@....com>, Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
"Diana Madalina Craciun (OSS)" <diana.craciun@....nxp.com>, Stuart Yoder <stuyoder@...il.com>,
Horia Geanta <horia.geanta@....com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@....com>, Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
Pankaj Gupta <pankaj.gupta@....com>, Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...hat.com>,
"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Vinod Koul <vkoul@...nel.org>,
"linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org" <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>,
"kernel@...gutronix.de" <kernel@...gutronix.de>, "Y.B. Lu" <yangbo.lu@....com>,
"dmaengine@...r.kernel.org" <dmaengine@...r.kernel.org>,
"linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org" <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] bus: fsl-mc: Make remove function return void
On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 8:44 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de> wrote:
>
> Hello Leo,
>
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 08:00:04AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 12, 2023 at 09:30:05PM +0000, Leo Li wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:41:22PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >
> > > > > many bus remove functions return an integer which is a historic
> > > > > misdesign that makes driver authors assume that there is some kind of
> > > > > error handling in the upper layers. This is wrong however and
> > > > > returning and error code only yields an error message.
> > > > >
> > > > > This series improves the fsl-mc bus by changing the remove callback to
> > > > > return no value instead. As a preparation all drivers are changed to
> > > > > return zero before so that they don't trigger the error message.
> > > >
> > > > Who is supposed to pick up this patch series (or point out a good reason for
> > > > not taking it)?
> > >
> > > Previously Greg KH picked up MC bus patches.
> > >
> > > If no one is picking up them this time, I probably can take it through
> > > the fsl soc tree.
> >
> > I guess Greg won't pick up this series as he didn't get a copy of it :-)
> >
> > Browsing through the history of drivers/bus/fsl-mc there is no
> > consistent maintainer to see. So if you can take it, that's very
> > appreciated.
>
> My mail was meant encouraging, maybe it was too subtile? I'll try again:
>
> Yes, please apply, that would be wonderful!
Sorry for missing your previous email. I will do that. Thanks.
Regards,
Leo
Powered by blists - more mailing lists