linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/40] soc/aspeed: aspeed-lpc-ctrl: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2023 11:03:23 +0930
From:   "Andrew Jeffery" <andrew@...id.au>
To:     Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        "Joel Stanley" <joel@....id.au>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-aspeed@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Pengutronix Kernel Team" <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/40] soc/aspeed: aspeed-lpc-ctrl: Convert to platform remove
 callback returning void



On Mon, 25 Sep 2023, at 19:24, Uwe Kleine-König 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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
>
> Trivially convert this driver from always returning zero in the remove
> callback to the void returning variant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@...id.au>