linux-kernel - [PATCH] mcb: lpc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Thu,  7 Mar 2024 18:59:03 +0100
From: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To: Johannes Thumshirn <morbidrsa@...il.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: [PATCH] mcb: lpc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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/mcb/mcb-lpc.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mcb/mcb-lpc.c b/drivers/mcb/mcb-lpc.c
index a851e0236464..2bec2086ee17 100644
--- a/drivers/mcb/mcb-lpc.c
+++ b/drivers/mcb/mcb-lpc.c
@@ -97,13 +97,11 @@ static int mcb_lpc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }

-static int mcb_lpc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void mcb_lpc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct priv *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);

 	mcb_release_bus(priv->bus);
-
-	return 0;
 }

 static struct platform_device *mcb_lpc_pdev;
@@ -140,7 +138,7 @@ static struct platform_driver mcb_lpc_driver = {
 		.name = "mcb-lpc",
 	},
 	.probe		= mcb_lpc_probe,
-	.remove		= mcb_lpc_remove,
+	.remove_new	= mcb_lpc_remove,
 };

 static const struct dmi_system_id mcb_lpc_dmi_table[] = {

base-commit: 11afac187274a6177a7ac82997f8691c0f469e41
-- 
2.43.0