bd7246a19e
This is step b) of the plan outlined in commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform:
Provide a remove callback that returns no value"), which completes the
first major step of making the remove callback return no value. Up to
now it returned an int which however was mostly ignored by the driver
core and lured driver authors to believe there is some error handling.
Note that the Linux driver model assumes that removing a device cannot
fail, so this isn't about being lazy and not implementing error handling
in the core and so making .remove return void is the right thing to do.
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Merge tag 'platform-remove-void-step-b' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux into driver-core-next
Uwe writes:
Change struct platform_driver::remove() to return void
This is step b) of the plan outlined in commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform:
Provide a remove callback that returns no value"), which completes the
first major step of making the remove callback return no value. Up to
now it returned an int which however was mostly ignored by the driver
core and lured driver authors to believe there is some error handling.
Note that the Linux driver model assumes that removing a device cannot
fail, so this isn't about being lazy and not implementing error handling
in the core and so making .remove return void is the right thing to do.
* tag 'platform-remove-void-step-b' of https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ukleinek/linux:
platform: Make platform_driver::remove() return void
samples: qmi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
nvdimm/of_pmem: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
nvdimm/e820: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
gpu: ipu-v3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
gpu: host1x: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
drm/mediatek: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
drm/imagination: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
gpu: host1x: mipi: Benefit from devm_clk_get_prepared()
pps: clients: gpio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
fsi: occ: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
fsi: master-gpio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
fsi: master-ast-cf: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
fsi: master-aspeed: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
reset: ti-sci: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
reset: rzg2l-usbphy-ctrl: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
reset: meson-audio-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
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