[PATCH net-next 04/11] net: stmmac: dwmac-visconti: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Sun Apr 2 07:30:18 PDT 2023


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 (mostly) ignored
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.

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 at pengutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-visconti.c | 7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-visconti.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-visconti.c
index 7531fcd4ffe2..acbb284be174 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-visconti.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-visconti.c
@@ -257,19 +257,16 @@ static int visconti_eth_dwmac_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int visconti_eth_dwmac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void visconti_eth_dwmac_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct net_device *ndev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 	struct stmmac_priv *priv = netdev_priv(ndev);
-	int err;
 
 	stmmac_pltfr_remove(pdev);
 
 	visconti_eth_clock_remove(pdev);
 
 	stmmac_remove_config_dt(pdev, priv->plat);
-
-	return err;
 }
 
 static const struct of_device_id visconti_eth_dwmac_match[] = {
@@ -280,7 +277,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, visconti_eth_dwmac_match);
 
 static struct platform_driver visconti_eth_dwmac_driver = {
 	.probe  = visconti_eth_dwmac_probe,
-	.remove = visconti_eth_dwmac_remove,
+	.remove_new = visconti_eth_dwmac_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name           = "visconti-eth-dwmac",
 		.of_match_table = visconti_eth_dwmac_match,
-- 
2.39.2




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