Re: [PATCH 14/58] mmc: dw_mmc: exynos: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Thu Jul 13 2023 - 05:04:15 EST


On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 10:11:15AM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 13/07/2023 10:07, 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.
>
> You even copied Uwe's commit msg... Aren't you duplicate his work or is
> it being coordinated?

We communicated and I politely asked to not interfer. This series is
just what Yangtao had still pending. That's fine for me.

Thanks for noticing,
Uwe

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