[PATCH] bus: Make remove callback return void

Kirti Wankhede kwankhede at nvidia.com
Tue Jul 6 13:16:21 CEST 2021



On 7/6/2021 3:20 PM, 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 <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>


>   drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_driver.c           | 4 +---

Acked-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede at nvidia.com>



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