[PATCH 0/3] spmi: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Uwe Kleine-König
Date: Mon Mar 06 2023 - 02:35:14 EST


this patch series adapts the platform drivers below drivers/spmi
to use the .remove_new() callback. Compared to the traditional .remove()
callback .remove_new() returns no value. This is a good thing because
the driver core doesn't (and cannot) cope for errors during remove. The
only effect of a non-zero return value in .remove() is that the driver
core emits a warning. The device is removed anyhow and an early return
from .remove() usually yields a resource leak.

By changing the remove callback to return void driver authors cannot
reasonably assume any more that there is some kind of cleanup later.

All drivers in drivers/spmi returned zero unconditionally in their remove
callback, so they could all be converted trivially to .remove_new().

Note that this series depends on commit 5c5a7680e67b ("platform: Provide
a remove callback that returns no value") which is included in v6.3-rc1.

Best regards
Uwe


Uwe Kleine-König (3):
spmi: hisi-spmi-controller: Convert to platform remove callback
returning void
spmi: mtk-pmif: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
spmi: pmic-arb: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

drivers/spmi/hisi-spmi-controller.c | 5 ++---
drivers/spmi/spmi-mtk-pmif.c | 5 ++---
drivers/spmi/spmi-pmic-arb.c | 5 ++---
3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

base-commit: fe15c26ee26efa11741a7b632e9f23b01aca4cc6
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