linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/30] clk: bcm: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2023 14:28:50 -0700
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Broadcom internal kernel review list 
        <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com>, linux-clk@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-rpi-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/30] clk: bcm: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

On 3/12/23 09:14, 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>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian