Re: [PATCH] cpuidle: kirkwood: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>]

On 09/04/2024 18:32, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 10:33:06PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 04, 2023 at 12:55:17PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:40:13PM +0800, Yangtao Li 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 (mostly) ignored
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
>>>> callback to the void returning variant.
>>>>
>>>> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@vivo.com>
>>>
>>> Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
>>>
>>> Can you pick this up?
>>
>> This patch isn't in next yet. Is this still on someone's radar for
>> application? Would be great if this patch made it into the mainline
>> during the upcomming merge window.
> 
> It didn't made it into the merge window leading to 6.9-rc1. What are
> the chances to get it into v6.10-rc1?
> 
> I just checked, the patch was submitted when Linus's tree was just after
> v6.5-rc1. So it already missed four merge windows without any maintainer
> feedback :-\

Sorry, it is applied now.

Thanks

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