linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/27] thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-ID: <20230712101445.bci4qkcf33wkr66d@pengutronix.de>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jul 2023 12:14:45 +0200
From:   Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amitk@...nel.org>,
        Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
        <angelogioacchino.delregno@...labora.com>,
        linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/27] thermal/drivers/mediatek/lvts_thermal: Convert to
 platform remove callback returning void

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 04:12:37PM +0800, Yangtao Li 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.
> 
> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>

Reviewed-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

While I like like you picking up the quest of converting drivers, I'd
like to have some coordination in place to not let us do duplicate work.

Best regards
Uwe

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