netdev - Re: [PATCH 17/19] can: sun4i_can: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Sat, 13 May 2023 08:36:57 +0200
From: Jernej Škrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>,
 Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>,
 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
 kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject:
 Re: [PATCH 17/19] can: sun4i_can: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Dne petek, 12. maj 2023 ob 23:27:23 CEST je Uwe Kleine-König napisal(a):
> 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() is
> 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@...gutronix.de>

Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>

Best regards,
Jernej