Re: [PATCH 05/20] pinctrl: intel: cherryview: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Mika Westerberg
Date: Mon Oct 09 2023 - 07:10:22 EST


On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 10:38:41AM +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() 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>