netdev - Re: [PATCH 17/19] can: sun4i_can: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Sun, 14 May 2023 19:05:08 +0200
From: Gerhard Bertelsmann <info@...hard-bertelsmann.de>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@...ndegger.com>, Marc Kleine-Budde
 <mkl@...gutronix.de>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet
 <edumazet@...gle.com>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@...e.org>, Jernej Skrabec
 <jernej.skrabec@...il.com>, Samuel Holland <samuel@...lland.org>,
 linux-can@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-sunxi@...ts.linux.dev,
 kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/19] can: sun4i_can: Convert to platform remove callback
 returning void

Am 2023-05-12 23:27, schrieb Uwe Kleine-König:
> 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() 
> is
> 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>

Acked-by: Gerhard Bertelsmann <info@...hard-bertelsmann.de>

Thanks Uwe :-)