linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] clk: mediatek: Convert all remaining drivers to platform_driver's .remove

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Message-ID: <5e0438103c4ec0a2fadb34d7a66b82fc.sboyd@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 10 May 2023 13:43:33 -0700
From:   Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>
To:     Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Michael Turquette <mturquette@...libre.com>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:     AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        linux-clk@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] clk: mediatek: Convert all remaining drivers to platform_driver's .remove_new()

Quoting Uwe Kleine-König (2023-04-30 12:02:33)
> 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 all mediatek clk drivers 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 clk-next