[Linux-stm32] [PATCH 00/34] watchdog: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Naresh Kamboju
naresh.kamboju at linaro.org
Tue Mar 14 08:38:13 UTC 2023
> Hello,
>
> this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/watchdog to
> use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
> callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
> the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
> only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
> core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
> from .remove() usually yields a resource leak. One driver suffering from
> this problem (s3c2410) is fixed by the first patch.
This patch set applied on top of Linux next.
Build tested with gcc-12, clang-16 and clang nightly.
Boot and LTP smoketests performed on
- qemu-x86_64
- qemu-arm64
- fvp-aemva
- qemu-armv7
- qemu-i386
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft at linaro.org>
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