[PATCH 01/15] memory: brcmstb_dpfe: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

[Markus Mayer]

On Sun, 17 Dec 2023 at 06:30, Uwe Kleine-König
<u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de> 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 ignored (apart
> from emitting a warning) 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. Eventually after all drivers
> are converted, .remove_new() will be renamed to .remove().
>
> 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/memory/brcmstb_dpfe.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/memory/brcmstb_dpfe.c b/drivers/memory/brcmstb_dpfe.c
> index a7ab3d377206..5028467b2dc9 100644
> --- a/drivers/memory/brcmstb_dpfe.c
> +++ b/drivers/memory/brcmstb_dpfe.c
> @@ -909,13 +909,11 @@ static int brcmstb_dpfe_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         return ret;
>  }
>
> -static int brcmstb_dpfe_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void brcmstb_dpfe_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         struct brcmstb_dpfe_priv *priv = dev_get_drvdata(&pdev->dev);
>
>         sysfs_remove_groups(&pdev->dev.kobj, priv->dpfe_api->sysfs_attrs);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
>
>  static const struct of_device_id brcmstb_dpfe_of_match[] = {
> @@ -936,7 +934,7 @@ static struct platform_driver brcmstb_dpfe_driver = {
>                 .of_match_table = brcmstb_dpfe_of_match,
>         },
>         .probe = brcmstb_dpfe_probe,
> -       .remove = brcmstb_dpfe_remove,
> +       .remove_new = brcmstb_dpfe_remove,
>         .resume = brcmstb_dpfe_resume,
>  };

Acked-by: Markus Mayer <mmayer at broadcom.com>