# Re: \[PATCH v2 4/4\] bus: Make remove callback return void

- From: Cornelia Huck \<cohuck@redhat.com\>
- Date: 2021-07-06 16:09:49 
- List: linux-wireless
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-wireless/2021/07/1434866
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mips/2021/07/1434856/t.md

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On Tue, Jul 06 2021, Uwe Kleine-König [ref] 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.
>
> Acked-by: Russell King (Oracle) <redacted> (For ARM, Amba and related parts)
> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <redacted> (for drivers/bus/sunxi-rsb.c)
> Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org> (for drivers/media)
> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <redacted> (For drivers/platform)
> Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
> Acked-By: Vinod Koul <vkoul@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> (For Xen)
> Acked-by: Lee Jones <redacted> (For drivers/mfd)
> Acked-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jth@kernel.org> (For drivers/mcb)
> Acked-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
> Acked-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <redacted> (For drivers/slimbus)
> Acked-by: Kirti Wankhede <kwankhede@nvidia.com> (For drivers/vfio)
> Acked-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com> (For ulpi and typec)
> Acked-by: Samuel Iglesias Gonsálvez <redacted> (For ipack)
> Reviewed-by: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> (For fpga)
> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> (For ps3)
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <redacted>
> ---
>
>  drivers/s390/cio/ccwgroup.c               | 4 +---
>  drivers/s390/cio/css.c                    | 4 +---
>  drivers/s390/cio/device.c                 | 4 +---
>  drivers/s390/cio/scm.c                    | 4 +---
>  drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c              | 4 +---
>  drivers/vfio/mdev/mdev_driver.c           | 4 +---

For drivers/s390 and drivers/vfio:

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>

```