linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 04/19] cpufreq: vexpress: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-ID: <20230713130431.bj2p7v2hy7tt736j@bogus>
Date:   Thu, 13 Jul 2023 14:04:31 +0100
From:   Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>
To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
Cc:     Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@....com>,
        Lorenzo Pieralisi <lpieralisi@...nel.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 04/19] cpufreq: vexpress: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 05:33:07PM +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>

I assume either Viresh will pick this or you are planning to group all
similar changes and get it merged together. Either way,

Reviewed-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@....com>

-- 
Regards,
Sudeep