Re: [PATCH] err.h: remove deprecated PTR_RET for good

[Jiri Kosina]

On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:

> Initially, commit fa9ee9c4b988 ("include/linux/err.h: add a function to
> cast error-pointers to a return value") from Uwe Kleine-KÃnig introduced
> PTR_RET in 03/2011. Then, in 07/2013, commit 6e8b8726ad50 ("PTR_RET is
> now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO") from Rusty Russell renamed PTR_RET to
> PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO, and left PTR_RET as deprecated-marked alias.
> 
> After six years since the renaming and various repeated cleanups in the
> meantime, it is time to finally remove the deprecated PTR_RET for good.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Rusty, if you are still around, Acked-by is appreciated.
> Uwe, Acked-by is appreciated.
> Kudos to Gustavo, Nicholas, Duan & Sachin for previous cleanups.
> 
> applies cleanly on current master and on next-20200320
> Jiri, please pick this trival patch for the next merge window. Thanks.

I am queuing it right away; it's been marked deprecated back in 2013, and 
it doesn't have any in-tree users anyway.

Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs