linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/19] cpufreq: sun50i: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:02:35 +0530
From:   Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
To:     Yangtao Li <frank.li@...o.com>
Cc:     Yangtao Li <tiny.windzz@...il.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>,
        Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>,
        Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>,
        Uwe Kleine-König 
        <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>, linux-pm@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/19] cpufreq: sun50i: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void

On 12-07-23, 17:33, 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>
> ---
>  drivers/cpufreq/sun50i-cpufreq-nvmem.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Applied all the patches. Thanks.

-- 
viresh