linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 06/13] irqchip/madera: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2024 11:56:11 +0000
From: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
        "Thomas Gleixner" <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <patches@...nsource.cirrus.com>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel@...gutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/13] irqchip/madera: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

On 22/12/23 22:50, 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/irqchip/irq-madera.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/irqchip/irq-madera.c b/drivers/irqchip/irq-madera.c
> index 3eb1f8cdf674..b424c0a327f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/irqchip/irq-madera.c
> +++ b/drivers/irqchip/irq-madera.c
> @@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static int madera_irq_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	return 0;
>   }
>   
> -static int madera_irq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void madera_irq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>   	struct madera *madera = dev_get_drvdata(pdev->dev.parent);
>   
> @@ -232,13 +232,11 @@ static int madera_irq_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   	 */
>   	madera->irq_dev = NULL;
>   	regmap_del_irq_chip(madera->irq, madera->irq_data);
> -
> -	return 0;
>   }
>   
>   static struct platform_driver madera_irq_driver = {
>   	.probe	= &madera_irq_probe,
> -	.remove = &madera_irq_remove,
> +	.remove_new = madera_irq_remove,
>   	.driver = {
>   		.name	= "madera-irq",
>   		.pm	= &madera_irq_pm_ops,

Reviewed-by: Richard Fitzgerald <rf@...nsource.cirrus.com>