[PATCH 06/41] rtc: at91sam9: Convert to platform remove callback returning void

Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com
Mon Mar 6 03:55:17 PST 2023


On 04.03.2023 15:29, 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/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
> index b7b5ea1a4e67..610f27dfc462 100644
> --- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
> +++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-at91sam9.c
> @@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static int at91_rtc_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  /*
>   * Disable and remove the RTC driver
>   */
> -static int at91_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
> +static void at91_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>         struct sam9_rtc *rtc = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
>         u32             mr = rtt_readl(rtc, MR);
> @@ -451,8 +451,6 @@ static int at91_rtc_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         rtt_writel(rtc, MR, mr & ~(AT91_RTT_ALMIEN | AT91_RTT_RTTINCIEN));
> 
>         clk_disable_unprepare(rtc->sclk);
> -
> -       return 0;
>  }
> 
>  static void at91_rtc_shutdown(struct platform_device *pdev)
> @@ -531,7 +529,7 @@ MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(of, at91_rtc_dt_ids);
> 
>  static struct platform_driver at91_rtc_driver = {
>         .probe          = at91_rtc_probe,
> -       .remove         = at91_rtc_remove,
> +       .remove_new     = at91_rtc_remove,
>         .shutdown       = at91_rtc_shutdown,
>         .driver         = {
>                 .name   = "rtc-at91sam9",
> --
> 2.39.1
> 



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