netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: wan: fsl_qmc_hdlc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:40:28 +0000
From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@...nel.org
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>@codeaurora.org
Cc: herve.codina@...tlin.com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
 kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com,
 netdev@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: wan: fsl_qmc_hdlc: 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 Tue,  9 Apr 2024 11:12:04 +0200 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:
  - [net-next] net: wan: fsl_qmc_hdlc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/07409cf72844

You are awesome, thank you!
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