[PATCH] bus: Make remove callback return void
Alexander Shishkin
alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com
Tue Jul 6 17:11:59 CEST 2021
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> writes:
> 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 <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
FWIW, the intel_th bit is
Acked-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin at linux.intel.com>
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