Re: [PATCH 8/8] regulator: wm8350: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Charles Keepax
Date: Tue Dec 05 2023 - 08:07:02 EST


On Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 01:26:23PM +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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Charles