Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: seg-led-gpio: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Tue Apr 09 2024 - 08:54:52 EST


On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 11:29:06AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 11:03 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>
>
> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Pushed to my review and testing queue, thanks!

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko