[PATCH 07/24] staging: media: atmel-sama7g5-isc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Nicolas Ferre nicolas.ferre at microchip.com
Mon Apr 3 09:23:39 PDT 2023


On 03/04/2023 at 17:39, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> 
> 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>

Acked-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre at microchip.com>

> ---
>   drivers/staging/media/deprecated/atmel/atmel-sama7g5-isc.c | 6 ++----
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/media/deprecated/atmel/atmel-sama7g5-isc.c b/drivers/staging/media/deprecated/atmel/atmel-sama7g5-isc.c
> index 01ababdfcbd9..315bfc4ac4ff 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/media/deprecated/atmel/atmel-sama7g5-isc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/media/deprecated/atmel/atmel-sama7g5-isc.c
> @@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static int microchip_xisc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>          return ret;
>   }
> 
> -static int microchip_xisc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void microchip_xisc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>   {
>          struct isc_device *isc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> 
> @@ -562,8 +562,6 @@ static int microchip_xisc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>          clk_disable_unprepare(isc->hclock);
> 
>          atmel_isc_clk_cleanup(isc);
> -
> -       return 0;
>   }
> 
>   static int __maybe_unused xisc_runtime_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -601,7 +599,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, microchip_xisc_of_match);
> 
>   static struct platform_driver microchip_xisc_driver = {
>          .probe  = microchip_xisc_probe,
> -       .remove = microchip_xisc_remove,
> +       .remove_new = microchip_xisc_remove,
>          .driver = {
>                  .name           = "microchip-sama7g5-xisc",
>                  .pm             = &microchip_xisc_dev_pm_ops,
> --
> 2.39.2
> 

-- 
Nicolas Ferre




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