From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-x435.google.com (mail-wr1-x435.google.com. [2a00:1450:4864:20::435]) by gmr-mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c26si870660wmr.1.2021.07.06.03.35.55 for (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Jul 2021 03:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x435.google.com with SMTP id f17so894582wrt.6 for ; Tue, 06 Jul 2021 03:35:55 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:35:52 +0100 From: Lee Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: Make remove callback return void Message-ID: References: <20210706095037.1425211-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20210706095037.1425211-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King , Thomas Bogendoerfer , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Geoff Levand , Michael Ellerman , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-sunxi@lists.linux.dev, linux-cxl@vger.kernel.org, nvdimm@lists.linux.dev, dmaengine@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-fpga@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org, linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org, linux-i3c@lists.infradead.org, industrypack-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-media@vger.kernel.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-ntb@googlegroups.com, linux-pci@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-remoteproc@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-spi@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org, target-devel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org List-ID: On Tue, 06 Jul 2021, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > The driver core ignores the return value of this callback because there > is only little it can do when a device disappears. > > This is the final bit of a long lasting cleanup quest where several > buses were converted to also return void from their remove callback. > Additionally some resource leaks were fixed that were caused by drivers > returning an error code in the expectation that the driver won't go > away. > > With struct bus_type::remove returning void it's prevented that newly > implemented buses return an ignored error code and so don't anticipate > wrong expectations for driver authors. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König > --- > Hello, > > this patch depends on "PCI: endpoint: Make struct pci_epf_driver::remove > return void" that is not yet applied, see > https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210223090757.57604-1-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de. > > I tested it using allmodconfig on amd64 and arm, but I wouldn't be > surprised if I still missed to convert a driver. So it would be great to > get this into next early after the merge window closes. > > I send this mail to all people that get_maintainer.pl emits for this > patch. I wonder how many recipents will refuse this mail because of the > long Cc: list :-) > > Best regards > Uwe > > arch/arm/common/locomo.c | 3 +-- > arch/arm/common/sa1111.c | 4 +--- > arch/arm/mach-rpc/ecard.c | 4 +--- > arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c | 3 +-- > arch/parisc/kernel/drivers.c | 5 ++--- > arch/powerpc/platforms/ps3/system-bus.c | 3 +-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/ibmebus.c | 3 +-- > arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c | 3 +-- > drivers/acpi/bus.c | 3 +-- > drivers/amba/bus.c | 4 +--- > drivers/base/auxiliary.c | 4 +--- > drivers/base/isa.c | 4 +--- > drivers/base/platform.c | 4 +--- > drivers/bcma/main.c | 6 ++---- > drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c | 4 +--- > drivers/cxl/core.c | 3 +-- > drivers/dax/bus.c | 4 +--- > drivers/dma/idxd/sysfs.c | 4 +--- > drivers/firewire/core-device.c | 4 +--- > drivers/firmware/arm_scmi/bus.c | 4 +--- > drivers/firmware/google/coreboot_table.c | 4 +--- > drivers/fpga/dfl.c | 4 +--- > drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 4 +--- > drivers/hid/intel-ish-hid/ishtp/bus.c | 4 +--- > drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c | 5 +---- > drivers/hwtracing/intel_th/core.c | 4 +--- > drivers/i2c/i2c-core-base.c | 5 +---- > drivers/i3c/master.c | 4 +--- > drivers/input/gameport/gameport.c | 3 +-- > drivers/input/serio/serio.c | 3 +-- > drivers/ipack/ipack.c | 4 +--- > drivers/macintosh/macio_asic.c | 4 +--- > drivers/mcb/mcb-core.c | 4 +--- > drivers/media/pci/bt8xx/bttv-gpio.c | 3 +-- > drivers/memstick/core/memstick.c | 3 +-- > drivers/mfd/mcp-core.c | 3 +-- Acked-by: Lee Jones -- Lee Jones [李琼斯] Senior Technical Lead - Developer Services Linaro.org │ Open source software for Arm SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog