[PATCH 03/30] pwm: atmel: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com
Mon Mar 6 03:53:26 PST 2023


On 03.03.2023 20:54, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
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> 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: Claudiu Beznea <claudiu.beznea at microchip.com>


> ---
>  drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> index cdbc23649032..0c567d9623cd 100644
> --- a/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> +++ b/drivers/pwm/pwm-atmel.c
> @@ -511,15 +511,13 @@ static int atmel_pwm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         return ret;
>  }
> 
> -static int atmel_pwm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void atmel_pwm_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         struct atmel_pwm_chip *atmel_pwm = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> 
>         pwmchip_remove(&atmel_pwm->chip);
> 
>         clk_unprepare(atmel_pwm->clk);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static struct platform_driver atmel_pwm_driver = {
> @@ -528,7 +526,7 @@ static struct platform_driver atmel_pwm_driver = {
>                 .of_match_table = of_match_ptr(atmel_pwm_dt_ids),
>         },
>         .probe = atmel_pwm_probe,
> -       .remove = atmel_pwm_remove,
> +       .remove_new = atmel_pwm_remove,
>  };
>  module_platform_driver(atmel_pwm_driver);
> 
> --
> 2.39.1
> 



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