Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 22 Mar 2020 22:42:56 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] err.h: remove deprecated PTR_RET for good |
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On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> Initially, commit fa9ee9c4b988 ("include/linux/err.h: add a function to > cast error-pointers to a return value") from Uwe Kleine-König introduced > PTR_RET in 03/2011. Then, in 07/2013, commit 6e8b8726ad50 ("PTR_RET is > now PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO") from Rusty Russell renamed PTR_RET to > PTR_ERR_OR_ZERO, and left PTR_RET as deprecated-marked alias. > > After six years since the renaming and various repeated cleanups in the > meantime, it is time to finally remove the deprecated PTR_RET for good. > > Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> > --- > Rusty, if you are still around, Acked-by is appreciated. > Uwe, Acked-by is appreciated. > Kudos to Gustavo, Nicholas, Duan & Sachin for previous cleanups. > > applies cleanly on current master and on next-20200320 > Jiri, please pick this trival patch for the next merge window. Thanks.
I am queuing it right away; it's been marked deprecated back in 2013, and it doesn't have any in-tree users anyway.
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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