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From: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: subsys: update return type of ->remove_dev() to void
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:31:10 +0530
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To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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On 30-07-15, 12:59, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 03:04:01PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> > Its return value is not used by the subsys core and nothing meaning=
ful
> > can be done with it, even if we want to use it. The subsys device i=
s
> > anyway getting removed.
>=20
> I'm assuming sysfs paths covered by it, will remain intact... ? For t=
he
> microcode loader case that's this hierarchy here:
>=20
> $ tree /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/microcode/
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/
> =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 processor_flags
> =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 version
> /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/microcode/
> =E2=94=9C=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 processor_flags
> =E2=94=94=E2=94=80=E2=94=80 version

Yeah, Its not touching the sysfs path at all.

--=20
viresh