Re: [PATCH] mcb: lpc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Uwe Kleine-König]

Hello,

On Thu, Mar 07, 2024 at 06:59:03PM +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.

I didn't get any feedback in reply to this patch. My quest to change the
prototype of struct platform_driver::remove depends on that one, so it
would be great if it could make it into the mainline during the next
merge window.

I added Greg to Cc: who's tree the last changes to this driver went in
through. If I don't get feedback until v6.9, I'd ask him to take this
patch without further maintainer feedback.

Best regards
Uwe

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