Re: [PATCH 0/6] Make remove() of any bus based driver void returned

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Dec 05, 2022 at 11:36:38PM +0800, Dawei Li wrote:
> For bus-based driver, device removal is implemented as:
> device_remove() => bus->remove() => driver->remove()
> 
> Driver core needs no feedback from bus driver about the result of
> remove callback. In which case, commit fc7a6209d571 ("bus: Make
> remove callback return void") forces bus_type::remove be void-returned.
> 
> Now we have the situation that both 1st & 2nd part of calling chain
> are void returned, so it does not make much sense for the last one
> (driver->remove) to return non-void to its caller.
> 
> So the basic idea behind this patchset is making remove() callback of
> any bus-based driver to be void returned.
> 
> This patchset includes changes for drivers below:
> 1. hyperv
> 2. macio
> 3. apr
> 4. xen
> 5. ac87
> 6. soundbus

Then that should be 6 different patchsets going to 6 different
subsystems.  No need to make this seems like a unified set of patches at
all.

> Q: Why not platform drivers?
> A: Too many of them.(maybe 4K+)

That will have to be done eventually, right?

thanks,

greg k-h