netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 31/54] net: ethernet: mellanox: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 11:21:44 +0300
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Asmaa Mnebhi <asmaa@...dia.com>,
	David Thompson <davthompson@...dia.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 31/54] net: ethernet: mellanox: Convert to
 platform remove callback returning void

On Mon, Sep 18, 2023 at 10:42:03PM +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>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxbf_gige/mlxbf_gige_main.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks,
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>