linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/30] clk: s2mps11: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-ID: <1f39c602-20ea-94a0-caee-54ae3dd10bfc@linaro.org>
Date:   Sun, 12 Mar 2023 17:22:55 +0100
From:   Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-samsung-soc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/30] clk: s2mps11: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

On 12/03/2023 17:14, Uwe Kleine-König 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 (mostly) ignored
> 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.
> 
> 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>

FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>

Best regards,
Krzysztof