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

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, Jul 6, 2021 at 8:51 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
>

>  drivers/cxl/core.c                        | 3 +--
>  drivers/dax/bus.c                         | 4 +---
>  drivers/nvdimm/bus.c                      | 3 +--

For CXL, DAX, and NVDIMM

Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx>