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

Paul Kocialkowski paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com
Tue Apr 4 01:47:00 PDT 2023


Hi,

On Mon 03 Apr 23, 17:40, 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: Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski at bootlin.com>

Thanks,

Paul

> ---
>  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
> 

-- 
Paul Kocialkowski, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering
https://bootlin.com
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