[PATCH 28/34] watchdog: s3c2410: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Sat Mar 4 09:12:49 PST 2023


On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 10:37:10PM +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>

Should no longer be necessary with the two patches I sent a short
time ago.

Guenter

> ---
>  drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> index cf104a844a43..d1f408913843 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c
> @@ -775,7 +775,7 @@ static int s3c2410wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	return ret;
>  }
>  
> -static int s3c2410wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
> +static void s3c2410wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>  {
>  	int ret;
>  	struct s3c2410_wdt *wdt = platform_get_drvdata(dev);
> @@ -789,8 +789,6 @@ static int s3c2410wdt_remove(struct platform_device *dev)
>  
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(wdt->src_clk);
>  	clk_disable_unprepare(wdt->bus_clk);
> -
> -	return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void s3c2410wdt_shutdown(struct platform_device *dev)
> @@ -845,7 +843,7 @@ static DEFINE_SIMPLE_DEV_PM_OPS(s3c2410wdt_pm_ops,
>  
>  static struct platform_driver s3c2410wdt_driver = {
>  	.probe		= s3c2410wdt_probe,
> -	.remove		= s3c2410wdt_remove,
> +	.remove_new	= s3c2410wdt_remove,
>  	.shutdown	= s3c2410wdt_shutdown,
>  	.id_table	= s3c2410_wdt_ids,
>  	.driver		= {
> -- 
> 2.39.1
> 



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