| From | Heiko Stuebner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 16/23] gpio: rockchip: Convert to platform remove callback returning void | Date | Mon, 02 Oct 2023 00:45:50 +0200 |
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Am Donnerstag, 28. September 2023, 09:06:59 CEST schrieb Uwe Kleine-König: > The .remove() callback for a platform driver returns an int which makes > many driver authors wrongly assume it's possible to do error handling by > returning an error code. However the value returned is ignored (apart > from emitting a warning) and this typically results in resource leaks. > > To improve here there is a quest to make the remove callback return > void. In the first step of this quest all drivers are converted to > .remove_new(), which already returns void. Eventually after all drivers > are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove(). > > Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove > callback to the void returning variant. > > Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
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