[PATCH 03/27] thermal/drivers/broadcom: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Florian Fainelli florian.fainelli at broadcom.com
Wed Jul 12 08:38:51 PDT 2023



On 7/12/2023 10:12 AM, Yangtao Li 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.
> 
> Cc: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Yangtao Li <frank.li at vivo.com>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli at broadcom.com>
-- 
Florian
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