[PATCH 07/34] watchdog: bcm2835: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 3 13:36:49 PST 2023


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>
---
 drivers/watchdog/bcm2835_wdt.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/bcm2835_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/bcm2835_wdt.c
index 94907176a0e4..7a855289ff5e 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/bcm2835_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/bcm2835_wdt.c
@@ -218,17 +218,15 @@ static int bcm2835_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int bcm2835_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void bcm2835_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	if (pm_power_off == bcm2835_power_off)
 		pm_power_off = NULL;
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static struct platform_driver bcm2835_wdt_driver = {
 	.probe		= bcm2835_wdt_probe,
-	.remove		= bcm2835_wdt_remove,
+	.remove_new	= bcm2835_wdt_remove,
 	.driver = {
 		.name =		"bcm2835-wdt",
 	},
-- 
2.39.1




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