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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/6] Make return type of i2c_del_adapter() (and i2c_del_mux_adapter()) void
On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:43:29 +0100, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> On 03/30/2013 09:13 PM, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I see:
> >
> > struct device_driver {
> > (...)
> > int (*probe) (struct device *dev);
> > int (*remove) (struct device *dev);
> >
> > So the driver core does allow remove functions to return an error.
>
> Well, the return type is int, but the return value is never checked. So you
> can return an error value, but the device driver core is going to care and
> the device is still removed. So any code which does return an error in it's
> probe function in the assumption that this means the device will still be
> present is broken and leaves the system in an undefined state. So if that
> happens the kernel will probably crash sooner or later, or if you are lucky
> you only created a few resources leaks.
>
> And no we can't change the core to handle errors from a drivers remove
> callback. It's a basic inherent property of the Linux device driver model
> that any device can be removed at any time.
>
> > Are you going to fix all subsystems as you are doing for i2c now, and then
> > change device_driver.remove to return void? If not, I don't see the
> > point of changing it in i2c.
>
> As I said it's a bug if a driver returns an error in its remove function.
> And the fact that the return type of the remove callback is int is pretty
> much misleading in this regard, so the long term goal is to make the return
> type void. But that's a long way to go until we get there, fixing the return
> type of i2c_del_adapter() is kind of the low hanging fruit.

OK, makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

--
Jean Delvare


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