netdev - Re: [PATCH] ptp: fc3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-Id: 
 <170966883295.18762.14661053302967043118.git-patchwork-notify@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 20:00:32 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>@codeaurora.org
Cc: richardcochran@...il.com, min.li.xe@...esas.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptp: fc3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (main)
by Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>:

On Mon,  4 Mar 2024 10:13:25 +0100 you 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().
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - ptp: fc3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/60d06425e045

You are awesome, thank you!
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