From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Roman Kiryanov <rkir@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Todd Kjos <tkjos@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 07/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Return status from "deinit" since "remove" does not do much
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:30:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181016063028.GC882@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOGAQeqiWMseXPi6n2gkBHAWhsRdwDyMXpCFB1h2mEuQLJz-mw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Oct 15, 2018 at 03:04:47PM -0700, Roman Kiryanov wrote:
> > This function can not fail, why are you returning 0 always? That
> > doesn't make sense.
>
> remove in struct platform_driver requires returning something, we have
> to have "return" somewhere.
But this code always returns 0, you are changing the function return
value to int, but it can not fail. I do not understand the need for
this change at all, sorry.
> I think we want to return closer to the place where we do something useful.
I do not understand this.
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-16 6:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 17:17 [PATCH v3 01/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_interrupt_tasklet variable into the driver state rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 02/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_miscdev " rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 03/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Move the file-scope goldfish_pipe_dev " rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 04/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Call misc_deregister if init fails rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 05/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove redundant casting rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 06/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Move memory allocation from probe to init rkir
2018-10-15 18:34 ` Greg KH
2018-10-15 18:48 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-15 18:56 ` Greg KH
2018-10-15 19:06 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-16 6:27 ` Greg KH
2018-10-16 20:48 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 07/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Return status from "deinit" since "remove" does not do much rkir
2018-10-15 18:36 ` Greg KH
2018-10-15 22:04 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-16 6:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 08/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Add a blank line to separate varibles and code rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 09/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Move goldfish_pipe to goldfish_pipe_v2 rkir
2018-10-15 18:38 ` Greg KH
2018-10-15 18:55 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-15 19:01 ` Greg KH
2018-10-15 20:23 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-16 6:29 ` Greg KH
2018-10-16 21:02 ` Roman Kiryanov
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 10/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Remove the license boilerplate rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 11/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Split the driver to v2 specific and the rest rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 12/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Rename the init function (add "v2") rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 13/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Add a dedicated constant for the device name rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 14/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Rename PIPE_REG to PIPE_V2_REG rkir
2018-10-03 17:17 ` [PATCH v3 15/15] platform: goldfish: pipe: Add the goldfish_pipe_v1 driver rkir
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