[PATCH 15/24] staging: media: sunxi: cedrus: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon Apr 3 08:40:05 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/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
index a43d5ff66716..3c62376c3e94 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/media/sunxi/cedrus/cedrus.c
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ static int cedrus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct cedrus_dev *dev = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
 
@@ -558,8 +558,6 @@ static int cedrus_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	v4l2_device_unregister(&dev->v4l2_dev);
 
 	cedrus_hw_remove(dev);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static const struct cedrus_variant sun4i_a10_cedrus_variant = {
@@ -706,7 +704,7 @@ static const struct dev_pm_ops cedrus_dev_pm_ops = {
 
 static struct platform_driver cedrus_driver = {
 	.probe		= cedrus_probe,
-	.remove		= cedrus_remove,
+	.remove_new	= cedrus_remove,
 	.driver		= {
 		.name		= CEDRUS_NAME,
 		.of_match_table	= of_match_ptr(cedrus_dt_match),
-- 
2.39.2




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