netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: realtek: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Message-ID: <b7fae2df-fccf-42a9-89d1-e93871ce6d5c@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:28:01 +0200
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/9] net: dsa: realtek: Convert to platform
 remove callback returning void

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 09:19:14PM +0200, 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() 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>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew