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

- From: Thomas Bogendoerfer \<tsbogend@alpha.franken.de\>
- Date: 2021-07-15 14:28:59 
- List: netdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/netdev/2021/07/1445700
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-mips/2021/07/1434856/t.md

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On Tue, Jul 06, 2021 at 05:48:03PM +0200, 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.
> 
> 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>
> ---
> [...] 
>  arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c             | 3 +--

Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>

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