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Message-ID: <0ed8e2c6-512e-4f62-b436-2ce1b898549c@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 18:07:19 +0100
From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@...aro.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
Gabriel Somlo <somlo@....edu>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc: kernel@...gutronix.de, qemu-devel@...gnu.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/11] firmware: qemu_fw_cfg: Convert to platform remove
callback returning void
On 27/12/23 17:26, 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>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/qemu_fw_cfg.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@...aro.org>
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