netdev - Re: [PATCH] ptp: fc3: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

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Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2024 19:28:16 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@...il.com>,
	Min Li <min.li.xe@...esas.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ptp: fc3: Convert to platform remove callback returning
 void

On Mon, Mar 04, 2024 at 10:13:25AM +0100, 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>
> ---
> Hello,
> 
> note this driver is currently only available in next.

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>