[PATCH 33/34] watchdog: stmp3xxx_rtc: Convert to platform remove callback returning void
Guenter Roeck
linux at roeck-us.net
Sat Mar 4 09:14:05 PST 2023
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 10:37:15PM +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/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c | 5 ++---
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c b/drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c
> index 7caf3aa71c6a..4b2caa9807ac 100644
> --- a/drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c
> +++ b/drivers/watchdog/stmp3xxx_rtc_wdt.c
> @@ -109,10 +109,9 @@ static int stmp3xxx_wdt_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -static int stmp3xxx_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void stmp3xxx_wdt_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> {
> unregister_reboot_notifier(&wdt_notifier);
> - return 0;
> }
>
> static int __maybe_unused stmp3xxx_wdt_suspend(struct device *dev)
> @@ -144,7 +143,7 @@ static struct platform_driver stmp3xxx_wdt_driver = {
> .pm = &stmp3xxx_wdt_pm_ops,
> },
> .probe = stmp3xxx_wdt_probe,
> - .remove = stmp3xxx_wdt_remove,
> + .remove_new = stmp3xxx_wdt_remove,
> };
> module_platform_driver(stmp3xxx_wdt_driver);
>
> --
> 2.39.1
>
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