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

[Uwe Kleine-König]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 10:42:56PM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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-König 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.

Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

in case it's not in a tree already that is not supposed to be changed
any more.

Best regards
Uwe

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