[PATCH net-next 08/11] net: stmmac: dwmac-sti: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Simon Horman simon.horman at corigine.com
Mon Apr 3 08:52:05 PDT 2023


On Sun, Apr 02, 2023 at 04:30:22PM +0200, 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 (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>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman at corigine.com>




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