[PATCH 32/34] watchdog: st_lpc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Fri Mar 3 13:37:14 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/st_lpc_wdt.c | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/st_lpc_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/st_lpc_wdt.c
index 39abecdb9dd1..d2aa43c00221 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/st_lpc_wdt.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/st_lpc_wdt.c
@@ -239,13 +239,11 @@ static int st_wdog_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int st_wdog_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
+static void st_wdog_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
 {
 	struct st_wdog *st_wdog = watchdog_get_drvdata(&st_wdog_dev);
 
 	st_wdog_setup(st_wdog, false);
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static int st_wdog_suspend(struct device *dev)
@@ -295,7 +293,7 @@ static struct platform_driver st_wdog_driver = {
 		.of_match_table = st_wdog_match,
 	},
 	.probe = st_wdog_probe,
-	.remove = st_wdog_remove,
+	.remove_new = st_wdog_remove,
 };
 module_platform_driver(st_wdog_driver);
 
-- 
2.39.1




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