Re: [PATCH net-next 18/19] net: mdio: sun4i: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Jernej Škrabec]

Dne ponedeljek, 18. september 2023 ob 21:51:01 CEST je Uwe Kleine-König 
napisal(a):
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jernej Skrabec <jernej.skrabec@xxxxxxxxx>

Best regards,
Jernej

> ---
>  drivers/net/mdio/mdio-sun4i.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-sun4i.c b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-sun4i.c
> index f798de3276dc..4511bcc73b36 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-sun4i.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mdio/mdio-sun4i.c
> @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_probe(struct platform_device
> *pdev) return ret;
>  }
> 
> -static int sun4i_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void sun4i_mdio_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct mii_bus *bus = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>  	struct sun4i_mdio_data *data = bus->priv;
> @@ -151,8 +151,6 @@ static int sun4i_mdio_remove(struct platform_device
> *pdev) if (data->regulator)
>  		regulator_disable(data->regulator);
>  	mdiobus_free(bus);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static const struct of_device_id sun4i_mdio_dt_ids[] = {
> @@ -166,7 +164,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, sun4i_mdio_dt_ids);
> 
>  static struct platform_driver sun4i_mdio_driver = {
>  	.probe = sun4i_mdio_probe,
> -	.remove = sun4i_mdio_remove,
> +	.remove_new = sun4i_mdio_remove,
>  	.driver = {
>  		.name = "sun4i-mdio",
>  		.of_match_table = sun4i_mdio_dt_ids,