[PATCH 05/34] watchdog: at91rm9200: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Sat Mar 4 09:02:37 PST 2023


On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 10:36:47PM +0100, 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: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>

> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> index d57409c1a4d1..d20ec27ba354 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/at91rm9200_wdt.c
> @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ static int at91wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return 0;
>  }
>  
> -static int at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct device *dev = &pdev->dev;
>  	int res;
> @@ -269,8 +269,6 @@ static int at91wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  
>  	misc_deregister(&at91wdt_miscdev);
>  	at91wdt_miscdev.parent = NULL;
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void at91wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -299,7 +297,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_wdt_dt_ids);
>  
>  static struct platform_driver at91wdt_driver = {
>  	.probe		= at91wdt_probe,
> -	.remove		= at91wdt_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= at91wdt_remove,
>  	.shutdown	= at91wdt_shutdown,
>  	.suspend	= pm_ptr(at91wdt_suspend),
>  	.resume		= pm_ptr(at91wdt_resume),
> -- 
> 2.39.1
> 



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