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SubjectRe: [PATCH v4 5/5] bus: Make remove callback return void
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 09:35:22PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König 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/input/gameport/gameport.c | 3 +--
> drivers/input/serio/serio.c | 3 +--

Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

Thanks.

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Dmitry

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