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Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 12:59:17 +0200
From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bus: subsys: update return type of ->remove_dev() to void
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On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 03:04:01PM +0530, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> Its return value is not used by the subsys core and nothing meaningful
> can be done with it, even if we want to use it. The subsys device is
> anyway getting removed.

I'm assuming sysfs paths covered by it, will remain intact... ? For the
microcode loader case that's this hierarchy here:

$ tree /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu?/microcode/
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/microcode/
├── processor_flags
└── version
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/microcode/
├── processor_flags
└── version
...

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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