Message ID | 20230307115900.2293120-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de (mailing list archive) |
---|---|
Headers | show |
Series | phy: Convert to platform remove callback returning void | expand |
On 07-03-23, 12:58, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Hello, > > this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/phy to use the > .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove() callback > .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because the driver core > doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The only effect of a > non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver core emits a warning. The > device is removed anyhow and an early return from .remove() usually yields a > resource leak. > > By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot > reasonably assume any more that there is some kind of cleanup later. > > All drivers in drivers/spmi returned zero unconditionally in their remove > callback, so they could all be converted trivially to .remove_new(). > > Note that this series depends on commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform: Provide > a remove callback that returns no value") which is included in v6.3-rc1. Applied, thanks