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Message-ID: <CAJZ5v0ixPUo1t8A4Qv7kAdxU3n7o4WxSFD0GyKom_ZJq_g2wtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:59:19 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/19] cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void

On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 11:34 AM Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com> 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>

Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@...nel.org>

or please let me know if you want me to pick ths up.

Thanks!

> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c b/drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c
> index 73efbcf5513b..84fe37def0f1 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c
> @@ -608,22 +608,20 @@ static int __init pcc_cpufreq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         return ret;
>  }
>
> -static int pcc_cpufreq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void pcc_cpufreq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         cpufreq_unregister_driver(&pcc_cpufreq_driver);
>
>         pcc_clear_mapping();
>
>         free_percpu(pcc_cpu_info);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
>
>  static struct platform_driver pcc_cpufreq_platdrv = {
>         .driver = {
>                 .name   = "pcc-cpufreq",
>         },
> -       .remove         = pcc_cpufreq_remove,
> +       .remove_new     = pcc_cpufreq_remove,
>  };
>
>  static int __init pcc_cpufreq_init(void)
> --
> 2.39.0
>

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