Re: [PATCH 07/20] pinctrl: nomadik: abx500: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Tue Oct 10 2023 - 09:38:44 EST


On Mon, Oct 9, 2023 at 11:22 AM Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij