Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Apr 2024 15:54:41 +0300 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: seg-led-gpio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void |
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On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 11:29:06AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:03 AM Uwe Kleine-König > <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> wrote: > > 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: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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