Re: [PATCH 5/5] spi: make remove callback a void function

Geert Uytterhoeven
2022-01-25T10:48:58Z

On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 6:54 PM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> The value returned by an spi driver's remove function is mostly ignored.
> (Only an error message is printed if the value is non-zero that the
> error is ignored.)
>
> So change the prototype of the remove function to return no value. This
> way driver authors are not tempted to assume that passing an error to
> the upper layer is a good idea. All drivers are adapted accordingly.
> There is no intended change of behaviour, all callbacks were prepared to
> return 0 before.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>

> drivers/spi/spi-slave-system-control.c | 3 +--
> drivers/spi/spi-slave-time.c | 3 +--
> drivers/spi/spi.c | 11 ++---------
> drivers/spi/spidev.c | 4 +---

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds