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Message-ID: <559092f8-6b50-b816-99dc-109555cf872a@datenfreihafen.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 13:06:09 +0100
From: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>,
Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@...tlin.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 10/10] ieee802154: hwsim: Convert to platform
remove callback returning void
Hello.
On 17.11.23 10:59, 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/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c | 6 ++----
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c
> index 31cba9aa7636..2c2483bbe780 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ieee802154/mac802154_hwsim.c
> @@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ static int hwsim_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return err;
> }
>
> -static int hwsim_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void hwsim_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> struct hwsim_phy *phy, *tmp;
>
> @@ -1043,13 +1043,11 @@ static int hwsim_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> list_for_each_entry_safe(phy, tmp, &hwsim_phys, list)
> hwsim_del(phy);
> mutex_unlock(&hwsim_phys_lock);
> -
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static struct platform_driver mac802154hwsim_driver = {
> .probe = hwsim_probe,
> - .remove = hwsim_remove,
> + .remove_new = hwsim_remove,
> .driver = {
> .name = "mac802154_hwsim",
> },
Acked-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@...enfreihafen.org>
regards
Stefan Schmidt
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