linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-ID: <ba0552a36a25dd9a438933dc6bb6272e.sboyd@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 28 Mar 2023 21:13:02 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@...nel.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Quoting Uwe Kleine-König (2023-03-05 23:34:44)
> 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>
> ---

Applied to spmi-next